Cloud application developers now have a new open source platform available: Radius from Microsoft. The project is an initiative of the Microsoft Azure Incubations team.

The Microsoft Azure Incubations team has launched a new project: Radius. It is an open source platform for developing and running cloud applications.

Why and what

With Radius, Microsoft aims to connect cloud providers and platforms to make application development easier. The platform should provide a centralized set of tools that developers and operators can use to collaborate.

Radius is open source and multi-cloud. This allows applications to be deployed in any cloud environment or on-prem infrastructure. The platform would use data to provide greater insight into an organization’s infrastructure.

Recipe for success

According to Microsoft, Radius supports the most popular programming languages ​​and app development tools. The platform is intended to help developers with the various components of their application. Radius also takes care of the configuration. This ensures operators that apps comply with the guidelines of various organizations.

In this first open source launch, Radius focuses on three features:

• A simplified and consistent application development experience
• Predefined templates to automate infrastructure resources and environment configurations
• Application diagrams that provide insight into the relationship between different resources

An important part of Radius is Recipe. Allows operators to create IaC templates (Infrastructure as code) provided for developer use. Operators can Recipe Also use it to define and enforce company policies. This eliminates the need for developers to take this into account.

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