> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> Agent home for Datum, with what it is, pricing, and how to act: https://agents.datum.net
> If you can only fetch URLs: read https://www.datum.net/docs/llms.txt in full and open the most specific page for the task. Commands, limits, and field paths are on task, operations, and limits pages, not on section overviews. Pages described as "Documentation is coming soon" are placeholders.
> If you have a shell or can save files: download https://www.datum.net/docs/llms-full.txt (every page, about 740 KB) once and search it with grep, instead of fetching pages one at a time.
> datumctl describes itself: `datumctl api-resources` lists resource types and `datumctl explain <resource>` shows a schema. To act on live resources, use Datum MCP or datumctl. To search the docs, use the Docs MCP server at https://www.datum.net/docs/mcp.

# Guides

> Step-by-step guides for common Datum tasks: replace your web server with an ALB, deploy an app, serve it on your own domain, require sign-in, and point DNS at a load balancer.

## Featured

> [card] [Use ALB as your HTTP proxy](/docs/guides/alb-as-httpd.md)
>
> Replace the NGINX, Apache, Caddy, or Traefik container in front of your app with Datum's Application Load Balancer, and deploy only your app.

## More tasks

* [Deploy an app](/docs/getting-started/first-workload.md) on Compute.
* [Serve traffic on your own domain](/docs/alb/operations/custom-domains.md) with an Application Load Balancer.
* [Require sign-in](/docs/alb/authentication/overview) before requests reach your app.
* [Point a domain at a load balancer](/docs/domain-dns/point-to-alb.md) with Datum DNS.

Have a guide you'd like to see? Suggest it in [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/orgs/datum-cloud/discussions/categories/feature-requests).


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