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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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: capabilities/slb-virtual-servers.yaml
        type: NaftikoCapability
      - url: capabilities/slb-servers.yaml
        type: NaftikoCapability
      - url: capabilities/slb-service-groups.yaml
        type: NaftikoCapability
      - url: capabilities/slb-health-monitors.yaml
        type: NaftikoCapability
      - 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