Other Resources
Additional resources for working with NetActuate Anycast.
API Reference
- API v3 Reference — full API documentation for managing anycast groups, sessions, and prefix announcements programmatically
- API v2 Reference — API v2 documentation
- API ECMP Deployment — deploy anycast workers with ECMP load balancing via the API
Automation & SDKs
- Terraform Provider — manage anycast sessions and BGP groups as infrastructure-as-code
- Terraform: Redundant BGP Sessions — deploy redundant BGP sessions for worker nodes
- Terraform + Ansible Handoff Pattern — provision with Terraform, configure with Ansible
- Ansible Playbooks — automate anycast worker deployment and BGP session configuration
- GoNA SDK — Go SDK for the NetActuate API
- NetActuate BGP Controller — open-source Kubernetes operator for automated BGP anycast with MetalLB, Calico, Cilium, or BIRD
Open-Source Playbook Repos
Tested and maintained Ansible playbooks for anycast infrastructure on GitHub:
- netactuate-ansible-bgp-bird2 — anycast BGP with BIRD2
- netactuate-ansible-bgp-frr — anycast BGP with FRR
- netactuate-ansible-nginx — NGINX on anycast nodes
- netactuate-ansible-varnish — Varnish caching on anycast nodes
- netactuate-ansible-pdns — PowerDNS authoritative on anycast nodes
- netactuate-ansible-anycast-dns — KnotDNS anycast DNS reference architecture
- netactuate-ansible-k3s — self-managed k3s with MetalLB anycast
- netactuate-terraform-bgp — Terraform BGP node provisioning
Related Guides
- Anycast Global Deployment — end-to-end guide from zero to running anycast cluster
- AI-Assisted Provisioning — use Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot to deploy
- Anycast DNS with KnotDNS — production anycast DNS reference architecture
- Kubernetes Anycast with k3s — self-managed k3s with MetalLB BGP
- ECMP Load Balancing — how equal-cost multipath routing distributes traffic across multiple servers at a single location
- Redundant Anycast Groups — designing primary, secondary, and tertiary anycast architectures for DNS and other services
- Mixed Provider Anycast — best practices for announcing the same prefix from NetActuate alongside other network providers
- DDoS Best Practices — layered DDoS mitigation and anycast group design for attack resilience
- Bring Your Own IP — using your own IP address space on the NetActuate network
Need Help?
Contact support@netactuate.com or open a support ticket from the portal.