The Akamai App Platform is a pre-built Kubernetes developer platform that is intended to accelerate your platform development so you can quickly deploy, manage, and secure your containerized workloads. It combines both developer-centric and operations-centric tooling into a single self-service portal. The App Platform is optimized to run on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE), but it can also be manually installed on any other conformant Kubernetes cluster.

The App Platform connects many of the technologies found in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) landscape in a way that provides direct value. This avoids the need to reinvent the wheel when building and maintaining your own Kubernetes-based platform or bespoke stack. The App Platform includes:

An integrated and pre-configured stack of open source Kubernetes projects to support all the essential capabilities for running cloud native applications in production on Kubernetes.
An easy self-service portal for developers to deploy workloads from Helm charts, build images, and publicly expose services
A catalog with Helm charts that serve as golden path templates and can be added, removed, or modified according to your needs.
Kubernetes Operators and GitOps to manage the state of the platform based on configuration-as-code.

Key benefits

Speed up time to market by automating and simplifying building and running applications on Kubernetes, reducing the complexity for development teams.
Reduce toil and avoid technical debt by providing a pre-configured and integrated suite of tools for CI/CD, observability, and security out-of-the-box, accelerating the application delivery and enhancing security.
Support multi-tenancy by allowing multiple teams or projects to share the same cluster, with self-service features that enable faster, independent deployments by developers.
Self-service features enable developers to build, deploy, expose, observe, and secure containerized applications on Kubernetes using a web-based portal.

Integrated Kubernetes apps

The App Platform includes many integrated and pre-configured Kubernetes projects, enabling you to compose your ideal platform with all the capabilities you may require.

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Developer-enablement

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

Administrative features

Onboard development teams to the same multi-tenant cluster.
Ensure governance with security policies.
Implement zero-trust networking.
Change the desired state of the platform based on configuration-as-code architecture.
Support multi- and hybrid cloud scenarios, which also prevents cloud provider lock-in.
Implement full observability.
Comply with disaster recovery requirements