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  title: "Automate Infrastructure with the Datum Advanced Networking API"
  description: "Explore the Datum Cloud API. A declarative platform for cloud network management. Automate infrastructure with Kubernetes Custom Resources and advanced networking tools."
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Datum Cloud provides a declarative API platform to create the infrastructure
necessary to deploy and manage services with advanced networking capabilities.
Many of our APIs are exposed through a Kubernetes API as [Custom Resources]
enabling you to use much of the tooling available within the Kubernetes
ecosystem to interact with our API.

[Custom Resources]:
    https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/

Continue reading the guides below to understand how to connect and interact with
the Datum Cloud API.