Dapr on AKS: building distributed applications with ease

Presentation I gave at the AKS meetup in Utrecht (NL).

GitHub repo: http://bit.ly/dapr-on-aks

Transcript

1. Dapr on AKS:
   building distributed
   apps with ease
   

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2. Marc Duiker Azure MVP
   2
   Sr Dev Advocate
   marc@diagrid.io
   Dapr Community
   Manager
   ❤️ pixel art
   

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3. 3
   Building
   block demos
   Deploy
   to AKS
   What is
   Dapr?
   

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4. What is Dapr?
   4
   

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5. 5
   E-commerce system
   State
   Management
   Email Payment
   Front-end
   Shipping
   Checkout
   Inventory
   Cart
   Internet
   Queue
   I just want to
   trace my calls
   end-to-end.
   How do I encrypt
   calls with ongoing
   cert rotation?
   How do applications
   discover and call
   each other?
   How do I handle
   failed calls and
   perform retries?
   How do I secure
   access to my
   data layer?
   How do I handle
   state conflicts
   from multiple
   apps?
   How do I
   measure latency
   on my database?
   How do I
   orchestrate
   business logic
   transactions?
   How do I send
   messages to many
   applications?
   Developer
   challenges
   

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6. 6
   Distributed
   application
   runtime
   

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7. 7
   Dapr is a portable, event-
   driven, runtime for building
   distributed applications across
   cloud and edge.
   

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8. 8
   virtual or
   physical machines
   

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9. 9
   Speeds up microservice
   development by providing
   a common set of building
   block APIs.
   

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10. 10
    Service
    invocation
    State
    Management
    Publish &
    subscribe
    Bindings
    (input & output)
    Actors Secret
    Stores
    Configuration
    Observability
    Workflows
    Distributed Lock
    

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11. 11
    HTTP/gRPC
    Dapr API
    Dapr sidecar
    Application
    App
    

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12. 12
    POST http://localhost:3500/v1.0/invoke/cart/method/order
    GET http://localhost:3500/v1.0/state/inventory/item67
    POST http://localhost:3500/v1.0/publish/order
    GET http://localhost:3500/v1.0/secrets/vault/password42
    GET http://localhost:3500/v1.0-alpha1/workflows/dapr/businessprocess/1234/start
    HTTP/gRPC
    Dapr API
    App
    

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13. 13
    C#
    Python
    Java
    Script
    Java
    Go
    SDKs
    

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14. 14
    10th largest
    CNCF project
    Submitted
    to CNCF
    Nov 2021
    Incubation
    maturity
    level
    www.cncf.io/projects/dapr/
    

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15. 20.5K
    GitHub stars
    2.5K
    Contributors
    +1M
    Docker pulls
    / month
    290k
    Unique doc
    views / month
    5.4k
    Discord members
    15
    

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16. 16
    Contributing organizations
    

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17. 17
    Bindings
    Configuration
    State
    Management
    Publish &
    subscribe
    Observability
    Actors
    Secret
    Stores
    Workflows
    Distributed
    Lock
    Components
    AWS
    DynamoDB
    Azure
    CosmosDB
    GCP
    Firebase
    Redis
    Cassandra
    AWS
    SQS
    Azure
    Service Bus
    GCP
    Pub/Sub
    Redis
    RabbitMQ
    AWS
    Secrets mngr
    Azure
    KeyVault
    GCP
    Secret mngr
    HashiCorp
    Vault
    Kubernetes
    Secrets
    AWS
    DynamoDB
    Azure
    CosmosDB
    Redis
    MongoDB
    Postgres
    AWS
    S3
    Azure
    Storage
    GCP
    Storage
    Twilio
    Kafka
    Jeager
    Zipkin
    Prometheus
    App
    Insights
    Datadog
    Redis
    Redis Azure App
    Configuration
    Dapr
    Workflow
    

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18. 18
    bit.ly/dapr-state-stores
    

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19. 19
    App
    CosmosDB
    

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20. 20
    Sidecar
    App
    CosmosDB
    metadata:
    name: mystorage
    spec:
    type: state.azure.cosmosdb
    metadata:
    - name:
    value:
    SaveStateAsync()
    GetStateAsync()
    yaml
    

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21. 21
    Redis
    metadata:
    name: mystorage
    spec:
    type: state.redis
    metadata:
    - name:
    value:
    Sidecar
    App
    SaveStateAsync()
    GetStateAsync()
    yaml
    

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22. 22
    Is Dapr a service mesh?
    

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23. 23
    No.
    

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24. 24
    Developer centric Infrastructure centric
    Service
    mesh
    docs.dapr.io/concepts/service-mesh/
    ≠
    Building block APIs & components Network traffic & Routing
    

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25. Building block demos
    25
    github.com/dapr/quickstarts
    

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26. 26
    Service
    invocation
    Checkout
    Order
    processor
    POST
    

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27. 27
    Publish &
    subscribe
    Checkout
    Order
    processor
    

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28. 28
    State
    Management
    Redis
    Order
    processor
    

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29. 29
    Deploy to AKS
    

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30. 30
    Redis
    Pods
    POST /neworder
    Python
    Pod
    read / write
    Node
    Pod
    Operator/Injector/Sentry
    Pods
    Deploy and
    manage Dapr
    Dapr on AKS
    az aks create
    --resource-group dapr-aks-rg
    --name dapr-aks
    --node-count 2
    --enable-addons http_application_routing
    --generate-ssh-keys
    

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31. 31
    bit.ly/dapr-on-aks
    

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36. 41
    Building
    block demos
    Deploy
    to AKS
    What is
    Dapr?
    

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37. Join the Dapr Discord!
    bit.ly/dapr-discord
    📖 docs.dapr.io 📖
    

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