Preview · Distributed applications · Built for hosting

Build distributed applications.
Host the whole system.

CloudShell is a tool for building, developing, and hosting distributed applications. Its resource-oriented control plane was designed for hosting from the start, with an integrated development workflow for running and diagnosing the same application model close to the code.

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One operational workspace

See the system, not a pile of tools.

Follow resources from declared intent to live runtime state. Open endpoints, run lifecycle actions, trace dependencies, and diagnose failures without losing context.

CloudShell resource inventory showing two healthy, running application resources
CloudShell trace detail showing an eight-span frontend-to-API request with a failed attempt and successful fallback
CloudShell environment map showing a container app, its replica group, and three running replicas
CloudShell resource graph showing the SignalR frontend and its API dependency

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Resource inventory

Filter the environment, check health, open endpoints, and run lifecycle actions from a shared inventory.

Services and building blocks

Run the stack your application needs.

CloudShell presents workloads and infrastructure as resources with consistent identity, relationships, state, operations, and diagnostics.

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Platform

Container hosts, networks, load balancers, DNS names, storage, volumes, and identities.

Platform resources
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Operations

Health, lifecycle actions, endpoints, logs, traces, metrics, monitoring, usage, and activity.

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One application model

Develop close to the code. Host without changing the story.

The same domain-shaped resource graph connects the developer workflow, Resource Manager, automation, and a standing self-hosted environment.

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    Build

    Describe the distributed application with YAML, code-first launchers, resource templates, or the Control Plane API.

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    Develop

    Run the graph close to the code with integrated configuration, endpoints, health, logs, traces, and lifecycle actions.

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    Host and operate

    Apply the same resource model to a standing environment whose providers own runtime state, policy, and operations.

Development and hosting, designed together

Build and host your first environment.

Start with the integrated development flow, inspect the full application graph, and explore how CloudShell carries that model into a hosted environment.

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