Common Runtime for Applications (CRA) is a software layer (library) that makes it easy to create and deploy distributed dataflow-style applications on top of resource managers such as Kubernetes, YARN, and stand-alone cluster execution. Currently, we support stand-alone execution (just deploy an .exe on every machine in your cluster) as well as execution in a Kubernetes/Docker environment.

CRA has been used to build both offline and streaming analytics platforms such as Quill and online microservice fabrics such as Ambrosia. Learn more about CRA here:

• A short paper which appeared at the ICDE 2019 conference
• Our technical report has more details.

After you clone the source code, check out the wiki at https://github.com/Microsoft/CRA/wiki for instruction on building CRA and running your first sample distributed application - either locally or in a Kubernetes (Windows) cluster using a Docker image of CRA. We have provided detailed step-by-step instructions for accomplishing this in the wiki. We show how to do this on Azure Container Service (ACS), but CRA should work on any other Kubernetes cluster as well.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.