The Catalyst platform

This section covers what every Catalyst user shares, whatever they build: how Catalyst is hosted, how organizations, projects, and identities work, how to operate the platform, and the full reference for the CLI, the APIs, and the component specs.

Platform operators will find hosting and operations here. Developers will mostly come here for local development tools and reference material. New to Catalyst? Start with the concepts.

Set up Catalyst for your team

Choose a hosting option

Catalyst Cloud, Dedicated Cloud, BYOC, and Enterprise Server: where Catalyst runs and who operates it.

Projects

Create projects, the container for your apps, components, and subscriptions.

Identity and access

Manage users, roles, API keys, and service accounts, and set up single sign-on.

• Users and roles
• Single sign-on

Regions

Choose a shared, dedicated, or BYOC region, and keep a project running when a region goes down.

• Regions
• Multi-region

Plans, limits, and support

Choose a plan, see its limits, and find out how billing works.

Run your projects

Observability

Metrics, API logs, workflow replay, topology, and tracing.

Declarative management

Manage Catalyst resources as YAML with diagrid apply and diagrid export.

Secrets

Keep sensitive component settings secret, or bring your own secret store.

Managed services

The pub/sub broker, KV store, and workflow store Catalyst runs for you.

Upgrades

How often Catalyst upgrades the runtime, and how to pin versions.

Develop locally

Catalyst CLI

Connect local apps to Catalyst with diagrid dev run.

Dev Dashboard

Inspect local Dapr apps, workflow runs, components, and logs.

Aspire

Build and run a Dapr Workflow .NET app locally with Aspire.

AI coding agents

Let Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot build and deploy on Catalyst for you.

Catalyst MCP server

Connect your AI tools to the hosted Catalyst MCP server.

Look something up

CLI reference

Control plane API

App API

Component specs

Policies

Troubleshooting

Release notes

Glossary

Run Dapr yourself

Dapr Ops Dashboard and D3E

Run and manage Dapr on your own Kubernetes clusters.

Learn hands-on

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