Step 1: Install the App Platform
Install the App Platform on Linode Kubernete 8000 s Engine (LKE) or any other conformant Kubernetes cluster.
Configure the App Platform for your use case.
Explore the App Platform with a comprehensive set of hands-on labs.
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.
- 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.
Check out apl-docs.net for more detailed documentation.
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