# A10 Networks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/a10-networks/  
**Website:** https://www.a10networks.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 35.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 63.6 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (6)

- **A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)** — 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...
- **A10 Networks Authentication API** — Session sign-on and sign-off
- **A10 Networks SLB Health Monitor API** — Active health probes attached to servers and service groups
- **A10 Networks SLB Server API** — Real backend servers
- **A10 Networks SLB Service Group API** — Service groups (pools) that bind real servers to a load-balancing method
- **A10 Networks SLB Virtual Server API** — Virtual servers (VIPs) that front pools of real servers

## Security (1)

- **A10 Networks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **A10 Networks Plans Pricing**

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/a10-networks/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.