Gloo Gateway
Gloo Gateway is a fast, Kubernetes-native API gateway packed with features IT operations teams need to deliver a full lifecycle security strategy for their cloud-native environments.
Why Gloo Gateway?
Traditional API Gateways aren’t designed to thrive in the rapidly changing cloud-native ecosystem, often demanding extensive add-on infrastructure to ensure their resilience, high availability, and readiness for production use. Enterprise gateway and ITOps teams use Gloo Gateway because it is built to work with Kubernetes and the dynamic nature of the clusters running your cloud-native applications. No centralized database, no more hairpinning and scales with your application.
Gloo Gateway Is...
Faster
Make 353 million requests per day on a single CPU. Gloo Gateway is fast and can scale with each CPU handling 4,000 requests per second.
More Secure
Take control of your service access and prevent data loss with web application firewalls, FIPS compliance, rate limiting, and enterprise identity integrations.
Lightweight
Works with your existing GitOps and progressive delivery pipelines for both infrastructure and applications.
See Gloo Gateway In Action…
| Features | Kubernetes Gateway API | Gloo Gateway OSS | Gloo Gateway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes-native CRDs | |||
| Basic routing (HTTP, TLS, TCP, UDP, gRPC) | |||
| HTTP Redirects and rewrites | |||
| HTTP Header Modification | |||
| HTTP Traffic Splitting | |||
| Multi-namespace Support | |||
| User Interface | — | ||
| Base Rate Limiting | — | ||
| Base AuthN/AuthZ | — | ||
| Telemetry suite for faster operational insights | — | ||
| External authorization (Basic passthrough, OAuth, API keys, OPA, LDAP, etc) | — | — | |
| Advanced Rate Limiting | — | — | |
| Lambda Support | — | — | |
| Web Application Firewall | — | — | |
| Developer Portal | — | — | |
| Cloud-Native API Management | — | — | |
| GraphQL server | — | — | |
| Distributed Gateways | — | — |
Gloo Gateway is Great For...
Alternative to Legacy Gateways including Apigee
Improve performance, scalability, and security with a cloud-native API management
Handling Heavy Traffic Payloads
Implement best practices for large-scale API gateway deployments and serve over 7 billion API calls per day
Reduced Response Times
Boost response speed and enhance application performance
Replacing NGINX with Secure, Envoy-Based Advanced Ingress
Secure gateways with out of the box authentication and monitor metrics including latency, traffic, errors, and saturation.
Building and Deploying Developer Portals
Enable modern API development and management practices (including Backstage)
Deploying in the cloud
Engineered to work with Kubernetes and live with your microservices for faster response and scalability