Akamai Application Platform (for LKE)

Getting started

Step 1: Install the App Platform

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

Step 2: Follow the post installation steps

Configure the App Platform for your use case.

Step 3: Explore the App Platform using the Labs

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: The service mesh framework with end-to-end transit encryption.
• Argo CD: Declarative Continuous Deployment.
• Keycloak: Identity and access management for modern applications and services.
• Cert-manager - Bring your own wildcard certificate or request one from Let's Encrypt.
• Nginx Ingress Controller: Ingress controller for Kubernetes.
• ExternalDNS: Synchronize exposed ingresses with DNS providers.
• Tekton Pipeline: K8s-style resources for declaring CI/CD pipelines.
• Tekton Triggers: Trigger pipelines from event payloads.
• Tekton Dashboard: Web-based UI for Tekton Pipelines and Tekton Triggers.
• Gitea: Self-hosted Git service.
• Cloudnative-pg: Open source operator designed to manage PostgreSQL workloads.
• 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: Back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.
• Knative: Deploy and manage serverless workloads.
• Prometheus: Collecting container application metrics.
• Alertmanager: Handle alerts send by Prometheus.
• Grafana: Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources.
• Grafana Loki: Collecting container logs.
• Harbor: Container image registry with role-based access control and image scanning.
• Kyverno: Kubernetes native policy management.
• Jaeger: End-to-end distributed tracing and monitor for complex distributed systems.
• Kiali: Observe Istio service mesh relations and connections.
• Minio: High performance Object Storage compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service.
• Trivy Operator: Kubernetes-native security toolkit.
• Falco: Cloud Native Runtime Security.
• Grafana Tempo: High-scale distributed tracing backend.
• OpenTelemetry: Instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior.

Documentation

Check out apl-docs.net for more detailed documentation.

License

APL is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.