Platform Mesh
The Platform Mesh defines an environment that allows service providers to offer services of any kind and service consumers to discover those services, order capabilities, and control their lifecycle.
Platform Mesh powers complex multi-tenant environments without compromising security, delivering a foundation for globally distributed and highly scalable services. Built on the Kubernetes Resource Model, it provides a declarative API layer for seamless interaction between providers and consumers. With integrated control planes and support for decentralized marketplaces, consumers can easily discover APIs while providers publish services effortlessly.
Open Micro Front End Platform (openMFP)
The Open Micro Front End Platform (openMFP) brings together micro front ends and APIs into a cohesive platform, allowing teams to contribute components while maintaining their independence.
- Decoupled Development: Teams can work independently using their preferred technologies, promoting agility and innovation while contributing to shared objectives.
- Unified User Experience: OpenMFP integrates key systems like authentication, reducing redundancy and improving usability across services.
- Extension Mechanisms: The platform supports adding new micro front ends and APIs, ensuring scalability and adaptability to evolving needs.
Open Managed Control Plane
The Open Managed Control Plane (openMCP) enables extensible Infrastructure- and Configuration-as-Data capabilities as a Service. Based on the Kubernetes Resource Model, all resources in the cloud-edge continuum with ApeiroRA are accessible and managed via a declarative API and corresponding controllers and operators. Together with the controller which understand OCM and declarative deployment orchestrators, consumers can subscribe to a product release-train of software producers and implement an automated, GitOps-driven deployment workflow at the edges.
Open Component Model
The Open Component Model (OCM) allows describing software products and included versioned components and (security) related metadata in a standardized way. It is a Software Bill of Delivery (SBoD), comparable to a Software Bill of Materials (SBoM), but specifically focusing on delivery artifacts.
Tools built for OCM enable consistent and secure delivery of software products across the many organizational and physical boundaries of the continuum.
Furthermore, OCM becomes the operational source of truth and offers component identities to correlate information from and for the build, deployment, up to the runtime context.
OCM can be used to prove the end-to-end compliance and security posture of a software product (also see OCM Gear).
Open Resource Discovery
Open Resource Discovery (ORD) is the first contribution in ApeiroRA as part of the Data Fabric. ORD helps software developers and providers to define how their services expose and discover their APIs, Events, capabilities and data. This includes practical concepts and examples of how technical services can implement a business reality over a distributed cloud-edge scenario using ORD-based semantic concepts.
Luigi
Luigi is a micro frontend JavaScript framework for building modular, scalable, and technology‑agnostic web applications with a unified user experience across distributed UI modules.
Luigi enables organizations to develop complex web applications by composing independent micro frontends, each potentially built with different technologies. Its value proposition lies in simplifying integration, navigation, and communication between distributed UI modules, reducing development overhead and fostering team autonomy. Luigi provides a consistent user experience, centralized authentication, and extensible configuration, making it ideal for enterprises seeking scalable, maintainable, and future-proof frontend architectures.
Konfidence
Konfidence is an open-source software delivery framework. It ensures that only tested and approved versions reach production, addressing a common challenge in complex IT landscapes.
Instead of relying on fragmented deployment processes, Konfidence uses immutable, versioned application packages. These packages contain all the necessary components for consistent and traceable deployments across development, testing, and production environments.
Konfidence reduces complexity, improves security, and facilitates predictable daily releases. It supports modern deployment practices, such as progressive rollouts and feature toggles, providing a structured process for faster, more stable, and more transparent software delivery.
Gardener
The Gardener Project is a robust, scalable, and production-hardened, certification ready, open-source system that manages Kubernetes clusters across many infrastructure providers. It's designed to handle the heavy lifting of cluster provisioning, management, and operations, freeing up teams to focus on their core competencies. With its extensible architecture, Gardener ensures seamless integration with existing infrastructure/cloud providers, making it an ideal choice for the diverse and complex cloud and near edge needs. It embodies the principles of the European Union's digital strategy, promoting open standards, interoperability, and hence serves as a bootstrap building block in ApeiroRA.