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        <h1 class="display-4 text-uppercase">The Modulith Runtime</h1>
        <p class="lead">Karaf provides modulith runtime for the enterprise, running on premise or on cloud.<br>
        Focus on your business code and applications, Apache Karaf deals with the rest</p>
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        <h3>Modulith Runtime</h3>
        <p>Karaf is the modulith runtime, supporting a wide range of frameworks and technologies.</p>
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        <h3>Enterprise Ready</h3>
        <p>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.</p>
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        <h3>On cloud or on premise</h3>
        <p>Run anywhere (on any machine with Java, cloud, docker images) running your applications with Karaf. </p>
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        <h2 class="featurette-heading">Power your applications with <span class="text-muted">Karaf Runtime</span></h2>
        <p class="lead">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.</p>
        <p>Last version <strong>4.3.2</strong> - (14/05/21)</p>
        <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/projects.html" role="button">Learn more &raquo;</a></p>
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          Enterprise Features
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          HTTP Service
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        <p class="lead">You have bunch of Karaf Runtime instances running ? You want to manage those instances as one, spreading the configuration, deployment, etc ? Karaf Cellar is for you. Karaf Cellar is a clustering solution for Karaf. It allows you to manage multiple instances, with synchronization between the instances.</p>
        <p>Last version <strong>4.2.0</strong> - (18/07/20)</p>
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          Discovery
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        <h2 class="featurette-heading">Manage your artifacts repositories with  <span class="text-muted">Karaf Cave.</span></h2>
        <p class="lead">Karaf Cave is an implementation of OSGi Repository specification. It can be used by the Karaf Features Resolver to provide resources, dealing with the requirements and capabilities of artifacts.</p>
        <p>Last version <strong>4.2.1</strong> - (29/11/19)</p>
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          Repository metadata
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        <p class="lead">You need a monitoring solution for Karaf and related ? You need a BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) platform for your application ? Karaf Decanter can be very convenient for you ! Decanter provides ready to use monitoring solution. It's also completely extensible and customizable.</p>
        <p>Last version <strong>2.7.0</strong> - (15/2/21)</p>
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          Collectors
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        <h2 class="featurette-heading"><span class="text-muted">Apache Karaf</span> enterprise modulith runtime.</h2>
        <p class="lead">DevOps, Cloud, On Premise, Monitoring, Clustering... Apache Karaf is the perfect project for the companies that need performance and flexibility.</p>
        <p class="lead">Download the latest ApacheCon slideshow to have an overview of the amazing possibilities that Apache Karaf offer to your business!</p>
        <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/resources/acna20-apache-karaf-modulith-runtime.pdf" role="button">Download &raquo;</a></p>
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          Karaf is your project !
          Karaf is an <a href="https://www.apache.org">Apache Software Foundation</a> project, available under the Apache v2 license.<br/>
          It's a complete open community, always listening proposals and comments.<br/>
          <a href="/community.html">Sources</a>, <a href="/community.html">mailing lists</a>, <a href="/community.html">issue tracker</a>: it's fully open, you can access directly.<br/>
          We also love contributions : don't hesitate to <a href="/community.html">contribute</a>.
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