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Developers and enterprises looking for a modulith runtime solution, running on premise or on cloud
About Karaf
Karaf provides modulith runtime for the enterprise, running on premise or on cloud. Focus on your business code and applications, Apache Karaf deals with the rest. Karaf is the modulith runtime, supporting a wide range of frameworks and technologies. Karaf provides enterprise ready features: shell console, remote access, hot deployment, dynamic configuration and many more. Karaf projects provide additional features like clustering, complete monitoring and alerting, application repository. Run anywhere (on any machine with Java, cloud, docker images) running your applications with Karaf. Karaf is a lightweight, powerful, and enterprise ready modulith runtime. It provides all the ecosystem and bootstrapping options you need for your applications. It runs on premise or on cloud. This modulith runtime supports several frameworks and different kind of applications: REST/API, Web, Spring Boot, and much more.
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Apache Software Foundation
Founded: 1999
United States
karaf.apache.org
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