API now stable, more on the way
Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), aimed at providing building blocks to simplify application development for Kubernetes. Dapr is one of several Microsoft-sponsored open-source projects around Kubernetes, and perhaps the most immediately useful. Others include Open Service Mesh (OSM), which uses Envoy (like Istio) but is lighter weight (like Linkerd); and KEDA, in association with Red Hat, which supports serverless, event-driven containers on Kubernetes. Dapr was first announced in October 2019 and has been developed on GitHub. The purpose of Dapr is to provide services, accessed via HTTP or gRPC, that can be called from any application, and meet some common requirements that can otherwise be tricky to implement.
