A10 Networks

aid: a10-networks
name: A10 Networks
description: 'A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) is a San Jose, California–headquartered application delivery and cybersecurity company
  founded in 2004 by Lee Chen. A10 builds the ACOS (Application Centric Operating System) software platform that powers its
  Thunder family of physical appliances, virtual machines (vThunder), and containerized form factors across hyperscalers and
  private clouds. The product line spans the Thunder ADC (Application Delivery Controller for L4–L7 server load balancing
  and GSLB), the Thunder TPS / A10 Defend portfolio (DDoS detection, mitigation, orchestration, and Threat Control SaaS) protecting
  service-provider and enterprise networks from volumetric and application-layer attacks, Thunder CGN (Carrier-Grade NAT and
  IPv4/IPv6 transition), Thunder CFW (consolidated firewall, VPN, CGN, and secure web gateway), SSL Insight for encrypted
  traffic decryption, the A10 Defend Next-Gen WAF (incorporating ThreatX), and the A10 AI Firewall for protecting LLM and
  AI application traffic. Every ACOS device exposes the aXAPI v3 — a RESTful HTTPS interface that is the primary configuration
  and operational control plane for the platform, supporting ACOS 4.0.0 through 7.0.2. The aXAPI surface is exhaustive (the
  official Terraform provider exposes 3,627 resources) and is wrapped by official Ansible collections (a10-acos-axapi, a10-acos-cli),
  a Python client (acos-client), the Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC, with 24 CRDs for pod-driven VIP automation), and integrations
  for OpenStack Octavia, Neutron LBaaS, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM, VMware vSphere, Helm, and Prometheus. A10 reported
  record annual revenue of $290.6M in FY2025 (up 11.0% year over year) under CEO Dhrupad Trivedi, serving 7,700+ customers
  across 117 countries.'
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Application Delivery
- Load Balancing
- DDoS Protection
- Application Delivery Controller
- Network Security
- Web Application Firewall
- SSL Decryption
- CGNAT
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- REST API
- Networking
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/a10-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: a10-networks:a10-networks-axapi
  name: A10 Networks ACOS aXAPI v3
  tags:
  - Application Delivery
  - Load Balancing
  - DDoS Protection
  - SLB
  - REST API
  - ACOS
  humanURL: https://documentation.a10networks.com/ACOS-Docs/axapi/702/start_here.html
  description: 'The ACOS aXAPI v3 is the RESTful HTTPS configuration and operational control plane for every A10 Thunder device
    — physical, virtual (vThunder), or containerized. It covers the full ACOS object model: Server Load Balancing (virtual
    servers, real servers, service groups, health monitors, SSL templates, aFleX scripts), GSLB, DDoS protection objects,
    CGNAT pools, system configuration, networking, routing, partitions, and operational/statistics resources. Authentication
    is session-based (POST /axapi/v3/auth returns a signature for the `Authorization: A10 <signature>` header). The aXAPI
    is the substrate under the Terraform provider, the Ansible collections, the Kubernetes Connector, and the Python acos-client.'
  properties:
  - url: https://documentation.a10networks.com/ACOS-Docs/axapi/702/start_here.html
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://documentation.a10networks.com/ACOS-Docs/axapi/608/index.html
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.a10networks.com/blog/axapi-rest-based-application-programming-interface-integration/
    type: Blog
  - url: openapi/a10-networks-axapi-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: json-schema/a10-networks-virtual-server-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - url: json-schema/a10-networks-server-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - url: json-schema/a10-networks-service-group-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  - url: json-ld/a10-networks-context.jsonld
    type: JSONLD
  - url: rules/a10-networks-rules.yml
    type: SpectralRuleset
- aid: a10-networks:thunder-kubernetes-connector
  name: A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)
  tags:
  - Kubernetes
  - CRD
  - Cloud Native
  - Application Delivery
  - Service Mesh
  humanURL: https://github.com/a10networks/tkc-doc
  description: The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects automatically
    as pods are created and scaled. It defines 24 CRDs covering VirtualServer, VirtualPort, ServiceGroup, HealthMonitor, NatPool,
    A10IPPool, ActiveActiveHADevice, ClientSsl/ServerSsl templates, TCP/UDP/HTTP/ HTTPS templates, persistence templates,
    policy templates, and cipher templates — exposing the full L4–L7 ADC surface as native Kubernetes resources.
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/a10networks/tkc-doc
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/a10networks/tkc-doc
    type: SourceCode
  - url: crd/
    type: KubernetesCRD
    x-description: 24 CRDs covering the SLB and template object model.
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.a10networks.com
- type: Products
  url: https://www.a10networks.com/products/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://documentation.a10networks.com
- type: aXAPI Documentation
  url: https://documentation.a10networks.com/ACOS-Docs/axapi/702/start_here.html
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/a10networks
- type: TerraformProvider
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/terraform-provider-thunder
- type: AnsibleCollection
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/a10-acos-axapi
- type: PythonClient
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/acos-client
- type: KubernetesConnector
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/tkc-doc
- type: OpenStackOctavia
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/a10-octavia
- type: PrometheusExporter
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/PrometheusExporter
- type: AWSCloudFormation
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/AWS-CFT
- type: AzureARMTemplates
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/A10-azure-arm-templates
- type: VMwareTemplates
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/a10-vmware-templates
- type: aFleXScripts
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/aflex-collection
- type: HelmChart
  url: https://github.com/a10networks/acos-prometheus-exporter-helm-chart
- type: Support
  url: https://support.a10networks.com
- type: Community
  url: https://glm.a10networks.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.a10networks.com/blog/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.a10networks.com/news/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://investors.a10networks.com
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.a10networks.com/company/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.a10networks.com/contact-us/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/A10Networks
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a10networks
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/a10networks
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/a10networks
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com