The documentation you are viewing is for Dapr v1.3 which is an older version of Dapr. For up-to-date documentation, see the latest version.

init CLI command reference

Detailed information on the init CLI command

Description

Install Dapr on supported hosting platforms.

dapr init [flags]

Name	Environment Variable	Default	Description
`--enable-ha`		`false`	Enable high availability (HA) mode
`--enable-mtls`		`true`	Enable mTLS in your cluster
`--help`, `-h`			Print this help message
`--kubernetes`, `-k`		`false`	Deploy Dapr to a Kubernetes cluster
`--wait`		`false`	Wait for Kubernetes initialization to complete
`--timeout`		`300`	The wait timeout for the Kubernetes installation
`--namespace`, `-n`		`dapr-system`	The Kubernetes namespace to install Dapr in
`--network`	`DAPR_NETWORK`		The Docker network on which to deploy the Dapr runtime
`--runtime-version`		`latest`	The version of the Dapr runtime to install, for example: `1.0.0`
`--slim`, `-s`		`false`	Exclude placement service, Redis and Zipkin containers from self-hosted installation

dapr init

dapr init -k

You can wait for the installation to complete its deployment with the --wait flag.

The default timeout is 300s (5 min), but can be customized with the --timeout flag.

dapr init -k --wait --timeout 600

dapr init --runtime-version 0.10.0

dapr init -k --runtime-version 0.10.0

dapr init -s