kgateway-dev/kgateway
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 291 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a cloud-native API gateway and ingress controller powered by Envoy for Kubernetes environments.
- Combines advanced API management, AI gateway capabilities, and hybrid app migration in a single, flexible platform.
- Use for managing and securing north-south traffic in Kubernetes clusters with robust ingress and edge routing.
- Use for protecting and routing large language model (LLM) workloads and AI inference in cloud-native infrastructures.
- Use for gradually migrating legacy applications to microservices or serverless architectures while maintaining unified traffic control.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Kgateway is feature-rich, fast, and flexible. It excels in function-level routing, supports legacy apps, microservices and serverless, offers robust discovery capabilities, integrates seamlessly with open-source projects, and is designed to support hybrid applications with various technologies, architectures, protocols, and clouds.
The project was previously known as Gloo, and has been production-ready since 2019. Please see the migration plan for more information and the current status of the change from Gloo to kgateway.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
829+35
Open issues
195-18
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 33.5K | +712 | 38 | 31 days ago |
| usebruno/bruno | 48.2K | +281 | 59 | 14 days ago |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.0K | +183 | 60 | 9 days ago |
| mudler/LocalAI | 50.2K | +176 | 59 | 12 days ago |
| sveltejs/svelte | 88.6K | +77 | 65 | 9 days ago |
| kgateway-dev/kgateway | 5.7K | — | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 48.2K | +183 | 59 | — |
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