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