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.
A10 Networks publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, SLB Health Monitor API, SLB Server API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Application Delivery, Load Balancing, DDoS Protection, Application Delivery Controller, and Network Security.
The A10 Networks catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
A10 Networks’ developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, YouTube channel, GitHub presence, and 27 more developer resources.
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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 coveri...
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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
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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
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description: The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects automatically
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url: https://www.a10networks.com/company/careers/
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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
A10 Networks API — frequently asked questions
Does A10 Networks have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from A10 Networks, including A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC), A10 Networks Authentication API and A10 Networks SLB Health Monitor API, and 3 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the A10 Networks API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for A10 Networks, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the A10 Networks API?
A10 Networks uses bearer-token authentication.
How much does the A10 Networks API cost?
APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for A10 Networks, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the A10 Networks API ready for AI agents?
A10 Networks has a Kin Score of 27.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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