DevOps Meetup #79: Multi-Cloud with Radius

Welcome to our meetup where we explore and share DevOps values, practices, and culture.

Talk
Simplifying Cloud-Native Applications with Radius: A Developer and IT Approach to Multi-Cloud

Summary
As cloud computing continues to accelerate innovation, many companies are building increasingly complex, cloud-native applications that span multiple public clouds and private infrastructures. While Kubernetes has paved the way for portability and scalability, its complexity and lack of a formal application definition have created challenges for developers and IT teams. Managing applications composed of numerous interconnected services—and ensuring they meet corporate standards for cost, operations, and security—requires a new approach.

Project Radius, developed by the Azure Incubations Team, was designed to address these challenges by providing a unified, open-source platform that simplifies cloud-native application management and enhances multi-cloud compatibility. Radius builds on top of Kubernetes, working with familiar tools like Terraform, Bicep, and GitHub Actions, to streamline the development and deployment process. Unlike Kubernetes alone, Radius recognizes the full scope of an application, connecting components, managing dependencies, and automating essential tasks like setting permissions and configuring connections.
In this session, we’ll explore Radius’s architecture and design, focusing on how it empowers both developers and IT teams to collaborate efficiently and adopt cloud-native best practices by default. Whether you’re running applications on Azure, other clouds, or on-premises, Radius offers a powerful, developer-friendly solution for simplifying application management, ensuring compliance, and accelerating cloud adoption.

About the Speakers

Speakers

• Pedro Cachaldora: Millennium BCP | Cloud Center of Excellence Compute Engineer
• Filipe Revez: Millennium BCP | Cloud Center of Excellence Compute Engineer
• Nuno Guedes: Thinking of clouds and containers | Speaker | Microsoft MVP for Azure

Agenda

• 18:30 - 19:00 Opening
• 19:00 - 19:45 Simplifying Cloud-Native Applications with Radius: A Developer and IT Approach to Multi-Cloud
• 19:45 - 20:30 Networking

Location
COCUS - Sitio
Av. da República 1363, 3º A
4430-192 Vila Nova de Gaia