Building blocks

Get a high-level overview of Dapr building blocks in the Concepts section.

Perform direct, secure, service-to-service method calls

Create long running stateful services

Secure, scalable messaging between services

Interface with or be triggered from external systems

Encapsulate code and data in reusable actor objects as a common microservices design pattern

See and measure the message calls to components and between networked services

Securely access secrets from your application

Manage and be notified of application configuration changes

Distributed locks provide mutually exclusive access to shared resources from an application.

Orchestrate logic across various microservices

Perform cryptographic operations without exposing keys to your application