# Alginte

## Docs

- [Editions & licensing](https://docs.alginte.com/editions/licensing.md): How Alginte is licensed today, and what a paid edition will add.
- [Alginte — Visual Kafka Management & Streams Builder](https://docs.alginte.com/index.md): Alginte is a self-hosted web app for managing and monitoring Apache Kafka: browse topics and messages, manage consumer groups, connectors and schemas, and build Kafka Streams topologies visually.
- [Run with Docker](https://docs.alginte.com/installation/docker.md): Run the Alginte Docker image, including how to reach a broker on a Docker network.
- [Run with the JAR](https://docs.alginte.com/installation/jar.md): Run the standalone Alginte fat JAR with Java, and expose it on a network safely.
- [Quick Start](https://docs.alginte.com/installation/quickstart.md): Run Alginte against your Kafka cluster in one command.
- [Introduction](https://docs.alginte.com/introduction.md): What Alginte is, how it is built, and the trust model it assumes.
- [Authentication](https://docs.alginte.com/operate/authentication.md): Enable Alginte's optional login — username/password or OIDC — before exposing it on a network.
- [Configuration](https://docs.alginte.com/operate/configuration.md): Point Alginte at your brokers and the surrounding Confluent services.
- [OIDC provider setup](https://docs.alginte.com/operate/oidc-setup.md): Connect Alginte's OIDC login to Keycloak, Google, Microsoft Entra ID, or Okta — any OIDC-compliant provider works.
- [Update notifications](https://docs.alginte.com/operate/updates.md): Alginte's optional, privacy-preserving check for newer releases.