At Solo.io, we work with customers running Istio at massive scale, in secure environments, and in highly-regulated environments (FIPS/FedRAMP, PCI, etc). Our Gloo Mesh builds of Istio are based on the upstream builds with LTS (N-3) and enterprise Severity-1 response times (ie, security patching, production break/fix, feature backporting,  etc). Unlike other Istio distributions, we do […]

Photo by Jin xc on Unsplash In the race for APIs, it’s best to think carefully about your API management solution. With Kubernetes gaining popularity, whether on-premises or on public clouds, we strongly suggest you adopt a Kubernetes-native solution like Gloo Edge. An emerging need of our customers, especially those who operate multi-tenant platforms, is […]

During the April 20th Live Hoot Episode, Yuval Kohavi dived into how to extend envoy functionality using external services to enable authorization, rate-limiting and observability. If you missed the episode, you can watch a recording here:     On our next live episode on May 4th, Scott Weiss will dive more into Building Multi-Cluster Operators […]

Gloo Portal allows users to catalog, manage and securely publish running APIs to onboard developers both inside and outside your organization.  With the recent 0.7.0 release, it adds gRPC support to its existing OpenAPI / REST facilities to become the first enterprise-class gRPC portal.  And of course, all of this is delivered with a cloud-native […]

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications. At Solo.io, we are very excited about Web Assembly as a way to extend our Envoy Proxy-based API Gateway (Gloo Edge) and the […]

Gloo Edge is our Kubernetes native API gateway based on Envoy. It provides authentication (with OAuth, JWT, API keys, and JWT), authorization (with OPA or custom approaches), a Web Application Firewall (based on ModSecurity), function discovery (with OpenAPI and AWS Lambda), advanced transformations, and much more. In my previous blog post, Envoy at Scale with […]

Join the solo team at ServiceMeshCon Europe 2021! This event will be held virtually on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 – Virtual and will feature speakers from a variety of organizations focused on service mesh technologies. Topics will include getting started with and adopting a mesh, lessons learned from production […]

Multiple Gloo Edge customers have approached us recently with questions like, “Our product security team wants our applications to remove any response headers from our services that indicate to a potential attacker that we’re using Envoy as the foundation of our API Gateway.  In particular, we’d like to remove the server header and any header […]

The First Enterprise gRPC Portal, Full Federation Capabilities, and more  Today, I am happy to announce the release of Gloo Edge v1.7 and Gloo Portal v0.7 with an array of unique features and enhancements requested by you, the Solo.io community and customers. First, one of the most exciting, unique features in the market is the […]

With the rise of “HTTPS first”, companies had to make the move to automated pipelines for certificate management. One of the most popular Certificate Authorities is Let’s Encrypt, certainly because of its free & self-service infrastructure for signing certificate requests. In this blog post, we will explore Gloo Edge options around TLS. In order to […]

Gloo Edge is our Kubernetes native API gateway based on Envoy. It provides Authentication (OAuth, JWT, API keys, JWT, …), Authorization (OPA, custom, …), Web Application Firewall (based on ModSecurity), function discovery (OpenAPI based, Lambda, …), advanced transformations and much more. One of the first question our customers are generally asking us is how many […]

In recent years, Istio has emerged as the dominant service mesh solution due to its powerful features, maturity, and vibrant community. However, installing, upgrading, and operating Istio can be error-prone, time-consuming and burdensome. Two years ago, Solo announced Gloo Mesh, a service mesh management plane. Our vision was to build a suit of tools that […]