Radius was launched by Microsoft Azure at the Linux Foundation Members Summit

The goal of the new Radius is to make the complicated world of cloud-native computing easier

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich introduced Radius, a ground-breaking open-source initiative, at the Linux Foundation Members Summit. Developers and operators will be able to design, implement, and work together on cloud-native apps on both private and public clouds thanks to this platform for cloud-native applications. The goal of the new Radius is to make the complicated world of cloud-native computing easier to design, administer, and operate. Russinovich went on, "Radius meets application teams wherever they work by integrating with current continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems like GitHub Actions and supporting popular infrastructure technologies like Terraform and Bicep in addition to Kubernetes. Multi-tier web-plus-data to sophisticated microservice applications such as eShop, a well-known Microsoft microservices cloud reference application, are likewise supported by Radius."

This is crucial to note since, despite the fact that he primarily discussed GitHub and Microsoft development tools, Radius is not an Azure-exclusive application. It is designed to function across any Kubernetes-enabled cloud. That practically refers to all clouds these days. Additionally, he pointed out that we are now facing new difficulties with monitoring, management, and continuous updating due to the modern transition from traditional two- or three-tier service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications that we learned in college or on our own to microservices and cloud-native-based applications. The days of waterfall software development are long gone.