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Install the App Platform on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) or any other conformant Kubernetes cluster. The App Platform can be installed automatically when creating a new Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) cluster on Akamai Cloud. It can also be installed manually on LKE or any other conformant Kubernetes cluster.

• Automatic installation on LKE
• Manual installation on LKE
• Custom installation on other Kubernetes services

After installing the App Platform on your Kubernetes cluster, review the Post installation steps guide. There may be additional setup or initial configuration steps, such as locating your username and password.

To learn how to use the App Platform, follow along with the hands-on labs. These tutorials are designed as walk-throughs for new users, instructing them on creating container images, code repositories, and workloads. In addition, learn how to monitor these items and implement basic security checks.

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.

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.
• 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:

• 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.

• Trivy Operator: Kubernetes-native security toolkit.

• OpenTelemetry: Instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior.

Check out the App Platform documentation on Akamai Techdocs.

Maintainers can find the repository release process in Release.md.

App Platform is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.