What makes self-managed Dapr hard to operate over time?

Self-managed Dapr becomes hard to operate over time when adoption spreads across clusters, teams, and production workloads. The team must manage upgrades, certificates, component health, security patches, observability, support questions, troubleshooting, best practices, and resource usage. What starts as a manageable open-source runtime can become a shared platform responsibility. The difficulty is not that Dapr is unsuitable; it is that production ownership requires time and expertise. Dapr Support from Diagrid, including Conductor and D3E, is positioned for organizations that want help operating and securing Dapr OSS in production.