API Gateway
API Gateway
📖 定义
API Gateway is a unified entry point in microservices architecture, responsible for request routing, protocol conversion, authentication and authorization, rate limiting and circuit breaking, monitoring and logging, etc. It shields clients from backend service complexity and provides a unified API access layer.
🔗 在 Higress 中的应用
Higress is a cloud-native API gateway that combines traffic gateway, microservice gateway, and security gateway into one, built on Envoy, providing high-performance and easily extensible API management capabilities.
💡 示例
- 1 API Gateway uniformly handles authentication for all external requests
- 2 API version management and canary releases through the gateway
- 3 Rate limiting at the gateway layer protects backend services from traffic surges
🔄 相关术语
❓ 常见问题
API Gateway 是什么？
API Gateway is a unified entry point in microservices architecture, responsible for request routing, protocol conversion, authentication and authorization, rate limiting and circuit breaking, monitoring and logging, etc. It shields clients from backend service complexity and provides a unified API access layer.
Higress 如何支持 API Gateway？
Higress is a cloud-native API gateway that combines traffic gateway, microservice gateway, and security gateway into one, built on Envoy, providing high-performance and easily extensible API management capabilities.
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