Simplify cloud-native application development

Focus on your application’s core logic and keep your code simple and portable

What is Dapr?

Dapr helps developers build event-driven, resilient distributed applications. Whether on-premises, in the cloud, or on an edge device, Dapr helps you tackle the challenges that come with building microservices and keeps your code platform agnostic.

Building blocks for any developer

Dapr building blocks solve common challenges developers face when building microservices

Get started in seconds

The Dapr CLI allows you to get started with Dapr running locally on your dev box and support MacOS, Linux and Windows. Install Dapr in seconds and start coding quickly.

Any language, anywhere

Use Dapr with your language of choice by leveraging an SDK or making simple HTTP or gRPC calls. Dapr is language agnostic and can run on any hosting environment including local development machines, Kubernetes, and public clouds such as AWS, Azure and GCP.

Pluggable components

With an eco-system of over 70 different components to plug-in to your application, Dapr makes it easy to keep your code agnostic to the hosting environment and your application highly portable.

Open source, community driven

Dapr is an open source project hosted on GitHub with a welcoming, engaged and growing community of contributors. Issues, fixes and features come from a diverse group of developers from around the world all collaborating to define the roadmap.

Turnkey observability and security

The Dapr sidecar collects traces so your application is instrumented with no additional code. Dapr is built with security in mind so using Dapr helps you harden your application.

Who’s using Dapr?

See what Dapr adopters, building real world production solutions have to say

Ready to get started?

Try Dapr for yourself on your local machine with this step-by-step guided tutorial

Event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge.