# addRadiusEnvironment

- Module: [Aspire.Hosting.Radius](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.radius.md)
- Version: `13.5.3-preview.1.26425.3`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/aspire/tree/b5f143315ffb6968ea939a9978797a5b20e4c688)

Adds a Radius compute environment to the application model.

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationBuilder {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addRadiusEnvironment(name: string): RadiusEnvironmentResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)

## Returns

[RadiusEnvironmentResource](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.radius/radiusenvironmentresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [IDistributedApplicationBuilder](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.radius/idistributedapplicationbuilder.md)