Durable Task documentation

Durable Task is Microsoft's technology for building workflows and orchestrations as ordinary code that automatically survives failures. Durable Task handles state persistence, automatic recovery, and distributed coordination for you. Common use cases include distributed transactions, multi-agent AI orchestration, data processing pipelines, and infrastructure management.

About Durable Task

Overview

• What is Durable Task?
• Choose your hosting model
• Programming model

Get started with Durable Agents

Quickstart

• Durable Task for AI Agents
• Durable Task Microsoft Agent Framework extension (preview)
• Agentic application patterns

Get started in Durable Functions

Quickstart

• Create a Durable Functions app (C#)
• Create a Durable Functions app (Python)
• Create a Durable Functions app (JavaScript)
• Create a Durable Functions app (TypeScript)
• Create a Durable Functions app (PowerShell)
• Create a Durable Functions app (Java)
• Configure Durable Functions with Durable Task Scheduler

Get started in the Durable Task SDKs

Quickstart

• Create an app with the Durable Task SDKs
• Host on Azure Container Apps
• Host on Azure Kubernetes Service
• Use work item filtering with Durable Task Scheduler

Hosting models

Concept

• Durable Functions
• Durable Task SDKs

Core concepts

Concept

• Code constraints and limitations
• Task hubs
• Error handling and retries
• Versioning and deployment safety

Storage providers

Concept

• Durable Task Scheduler
• Azure Storage

Resources

Reference

• Durable Functions troubleshooting
• Durable Task SDK troubleshooting
• Community Q&A