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

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

Tested and maintained Ansible playbooks for anycast infrastructure on GitHub:

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

Contact support@netactuate.com or open a support ticket from the portal.