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Application Platform for Linode Kubernetes Engine (or any other K8s)
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Application Platform for Linode Kubernetes Engine (or any other K8s)

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  Akamai Application Platform (for LKE)






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## Getting started



### Step 1: [Install the App Platform](https://apl-docs.net/docs/get-started/installation/overview)

Install the App Platform on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) or any other conformant Kubernetes cluster.



### Step 2: [Follow the post installation steps ](https://apl-docs.net/docs/get-started/installation/post-installation-steps)

Configure the App Platform for your use case.



### Step 3: [Explore the App Platform using the Labs](https://apl-docs.net/docs/get-started/labs/overview)

Explore the App Platform with a comprehensive set of hands-on labs.



## Akamai Application Platform supports



**Developers** - With easy self-service.



- Build OCI compliant images from source code.

- Deploy containerized workloads the GitOps way using the provided quickstarts or BYO golden path templates.

- Automatically update container images of workloads.

- Publicly expose applications.

- Get instant access to logs, metrics and traces.

- Store images in a private registry.

- Configure network policies, response headers and CNAMEs.

- Check applications against a comprehensive set of built-in security policies.

- Create and manage secrets.

- Create private Git repositories and use the built-in CI/CD pipelines.



**Platform Administrators** - With all the required platform capabilities when using Kubernetes.



- Get all the required capabilities in a pre-configured, integrated and automated way.

- Onboard development Teams in a comprehensive multi-tenant setup and make them self-serving.

- Manage users.

- Ensure governance with security policies.

- Implement zero-trust networking.

- Change the desired state of the platform based on Configuration-as-Code.

- Support multi- and hybrid cloud PaaS.

- Prevent cloud provider lock-in.

- Implement full observability.

- Comply with Disaster Recovery requirements.



## Integrations



**Core Applications**



Get instant access to the following pre-configured Kubernetes Apps:



- [Istio](https://github.com/istio/istio): The service mesh framework with end-to-end transit encryption.

- [Argo CD](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd): Declarative Continuous Deployment.

- [Keycloak](https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak): Identity and access management for modern applications and services.

- [Cert-manager](https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager) - Bring your own wildcard certificate or request one from Let's Encrypt.

- [Nginx Ingress Controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx): Ingress controller for Kubernetes.

- [ExternalDNS](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns): Synchronize exposed ingresses with DNS providers.

- [Tekton Pipeline](https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline): K8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD pipelines.

- [Tekton Triggers](https://github.com/tektoncd/triggers): Trigger pipelines from event payloads.

- [Tekton Dashboard](https://github.com/tektoncd/dashboard): Web-based UI for Tekton Pipelines and Tekton Triggers.

- [Gitea](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea): Self-hosted Git service.

- [Cloudnative-pg](https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg): Open source operator designed to manage PostgreSQL workloads.

- [Sealed Secrets](https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets): Encrypt your Secret into a SealedSecret and store secrets in a Git repository.



**Optional Applications**



One-click activation of the following Kubernetes Apps:



- [Velero](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero): Back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

- [Knative](https://github.com/knative/serving): Deploy and manage serverless workloads.

- [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus): Collecting container application metrics.

- [Alertmanager](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager): Handle alerts send by Prometheus.

- [Grafana](https://github.com/grafana/grafana): Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources.

- [Grafana Loki](https://github.com/grafana/loki): Collecting container logs.

- [Harbor](https://github.com/goharbor/harbor): Container image registry with role-based access control and image scanning.

- [Kyverno](https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno): Kubernetes native policy management.

- [Jaeger](https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger): End-to-end distributed tracing and monitor for complex distributed systems.

- [Kiali](https://github.com/kiali/kiali): Observe Istio service mesh relations and connections.

- [Minio](https://github.com/minio/minio): High performance Object Storage compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service.

- [Trivy Operator](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator): Kubernetes-native security toolkit.

- [Falco](https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco): Cloud Native Runtime Security.

- [Grafana Tempo](https://github.com/grafana/tempo): High-scale distributed tracing backend.

- [OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator): Instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior.



## Documentation



Check out [apl-docs.net](https://apl-docs.net) for more detailed documentation.



## License



APL is licensed under the [Apache 2.0 License](https://github.com/linode/apl-core/blob/main/LICENSE).