Akka Platform features

Users management, authorization

against organizations, projects, services

OpenID Connect support

delegation of user and group management

Management synchronization

synchronizing changes to users and authentication across every application plane

Federated deployment

rolling out new application versions across many regions simultaneously

Multi-tenancy

multiple users and organizations sharing the same compute, storage, and persistence

Discovery

discovery of multiple Akka regions

Connectivity

mTLS setup within regions and for cross-region connectivity

Clustering

a service automatically spans its Akka cluster across multiple cloud provider availability zones

Kubernetes operators

mapping Akka apps to namespaces, roles and role bindings, mapping Akka services, secrets and routes to Kubernetes resources, admin management access to Akka apps deployed within Kubernetes including Views, projections

Auto-scaling

monitoring utilization to decide when additional instances of your Akka app should be added, removed, or resized from the cluster

Disaster recovery

data stores are backed up in different locations

Projects

create and manage projects that have shared users for collaborative development, deployment, and operations

Access tokens

access, refresh, and service tokens accessible to CI/CD and Akka developers

JWTs and ACLs

validate JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for HTTP authentication, signing JWTs, allowing fine-grained invocation restrictions

Packing

coordinating the release of new application versions across registries in multiple regions

Akka Runtime

Managed JVM and Akka runtime that attach to Akka apps, can be updated and patched independently of Akka apps without having to repack, redeploy, or restart the Akka service

Firewall

VPC peering, ingress traffic routing.

Ingress

Let’s Encrypt TLS termination, client certificate CA validation, client certification authorization, Auto configuration of Akka routes for each service with TLS cert provisioning

Aggregation

metrics, logs, traces are collected and aggregated to user-configured telemetry destinations whether the embedded metrics server or 3rd party service like Splunk or DataDog

Data management

credentials for the event store are dynamically generated for Akka services and injected into the runtime automatically; all data in motion, data at rest, and sourced keys are encrypted. Regular, automatic key rotation through Data Encryption Keys and Key Encryption Keys.

Heap dump collection

automatically capture JVM heap dumps in certain error scenarios