# Welcome Kotal is an [open source](https://github.com/kotalco) alternative to centralized API gateway, Node as a service, and Staking service providers. Like Infura in Ethereum ecosystem, Onfinality in Polkadot ecosystem, and Hiro in Stacks ecosystem. Kotal is multi-client, protocol-agnostic, and cloud-agnostic Blockchain Kubernetes Operator that makes it easy to deploy highly-available self-managing self-healing blockchain infrastructure on any cloud. Kotal has been tested on Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Alibab Cloud, Tencent cloud 🤯. ### What can I do with Kotal ? * Deploy nodes across 10 Blockchain protocols (Aptos, Bitcoin, Chainkstack, Ethereum, Filecoin, IPFS, NEAR, Polkadot, Stacks) * Upgrade and Downgrade node client software * Load validator keys and start producing blocks * Manage storage and resources (CPU & Memory) allocated to the node * Manage Secrets (private keys, passwords, tokens, certificates) * Monitor resources utilization * Fetch real time logs * Create TLS-secure API endpoints * View API endpoints usage * Create workspaces of nodes and resources * Invite members to workspaces and assign roles --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.kotal.co/readme.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.