As teams adopt Radius to simplify and unify application dependencies management, one of the biggest challenges becomes extending it for real-world, production-grade workloads. In this session, Millennium bcp shares how we evolved Radius beyond the basics to model and operate complex dependencies like Datadog monitors, AI models, and internal APIs—treating them as first-class resources inside the Radius app graph.

We’ll walk through the architecture behind custom resource providers, lifecycle automation, and policy enforcement that make these extensions reliable and compliant. Finally, we’ll demo the Radius plugin for Kubernetes Headlamp, which brings app visualization, dependency mapping, and operations into the same UI developers already use. Attendees will leave with proven design patterns for extending Radius, improving developer experience, and achieving consistent app management across clouds.