docs/daprdocs/content/en/operations/resiliency/targets.md

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docs	Targets	Targets	4500	Apply resiliency policies for apps, components and actors

Resiliency is currently a preview feature. Before you can utilize resiliency policies, you must first enable the resiliency preview feature.

Targets

Named policies are applied to targets. Dapr supports 3 target types that cover all Dapr building blocks, except observability:

• apps
• components
• actors

Resilient behaviors might differ between target types, as some targets may already include resilient capabilities; for example, service invocation with built-in retries.

Apps

With the apps target, you can apply retry, timeout, and circuitBreaker policies to service invocation calls between Dapr apps. Under targets/apps, policies are applied to each key or target service's app-id listed when network failure occurs between sidecar communication (as pictured in the diagram above).

Example of policies to a target app with the app-id "appB":

specs:
  targets:
    apps:
      appB: # app-id of the target service
        timeout: general
        retry: general
        circuitBreaker: general

Dapr provides [built-in service invocation retries]({{< ref "service-invocation-overview.md#retries" >}}), so any applied retry policies are additional.

Components

With the components target, you can apply retry, timeout and circuitBreaker policies to components operations. Policy assignments are optional.

Policies can be applied for outbound operations (calls to the Dapr sidecar) and/or inbound (the sidecar calling your app). At this time, inbound only applies to PubSub and InputBinding components.

Outbound

outbound operations are calls from the sidecar to a component, such as:

• Persisting or retrieving state.
• Publishing a message.
• Invoking an output binding.

Some components have built-in retry capabilities and are configured on a per-component basis.

spec:
  targets:
    components:
      myStateStore:
        outbound:
          retry: pubsubRetry
          circuitBreaker: pubsubCB

Inbound

inbound operations are calls from the sidecar to your application, such as:

• Subscribing to a topic.
• Inbound bindings.

Some components have built-in retry capabilities and are configured on a per-component basis.

spec:
  targets:
    components:
      myInputBinding:
        inbound: 
          timeout: general
          retry: general
          circuitBreaker: general

PubSub

In a PubSub target/component, you can specify both inbound and outbound operations.

spec:
  targets:
    components:
      myPubsub:
        outbound:
          retry: pubsubRetry
          circuitBreaker: pubsubCB
        inbound: # inbound only applies to delivery from sidecar to app
          timeout: general
          retry: general
          circuitBreaker: general

Actors

With the actors target, you can apply retry, timeout, and circuitBreaker policies to actor operations. Policy assignments are optional.

When using a circuitBreaker policy, you can specify whether circuit breaking state should be scoped to:

• An individual actor ID.
• All actors across the actor type.
• Both.

Specify circuitBreakerScope with values id, type, or both.

You can specify a cache size for the number of circuit breakers to keep in memory. Do this by specifying circuitBreakerCacheSize and providing an integer value, e.g. 5000.

Example

spec:
  targets:
    actors:
      myActorType:
        timeout: general
        retry: general
        circuitBreaker: general
        circuitBreakerScope: both
        circuitBreakerCacheSize: 5000