Gloo Edge 1.17: API Gateway Evolution and Enhanced Routing

Introduction

Gloo Edge 1.17, released on August 15, 2024, advances API gateway capabilities with enhanced routing, improved security features, better observability, and expanded integration options. This release makes Gloo Edge more powerful for managing APIs and microservices.

API Gateway Enhancements

• Advanced routing capabilities enable sophisticated traffic management and request transformation.
• Rate limiting improvements provide more flexible throttling strategies.
• Authentication enhancements expand support for OAuth2, JWT, and API keys.
• Authorization improvements enable fine-grained access control for APIs.

Routing Improvements

1. Traffic splitting enhancements enable more sophisticated canary and blue-green deployments.
2. Request transformation improvements provide better control over request modification.
3. Response transformation capabilities enable dynamic response modification.
4. Header manipulation enhancements provide better control over HTTP headers.

Security Features

• mTLS support enables mutual TLS for service-to-service communication.
• WAF integration provides web application firewall capabilities.
• DDoS protection enhancements improve resilience against denial-of-service attacks.
• Policy enforcement enables consistent security policies across APIs.

Integration Options

• GraphQL support enables GraphQL API gateway capabilities.
• gRPC enhancements provide better support for gRPC traffic.
• WebSocket improvements enable better WebSocket connection handling.
• Serverless integration enables integration with serverless functions.

Getting Started

# Install Gloo Edge using Helm
helm repo add gloo https://storage.googleapis.com/solo-public-helm
helm install gloo gloo/gloo --namespace gloo-system --create-namespace

Create a VirtualService:

apiVersion: gateway.solo.io/v1
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: myapp
  namespace: gloo-system
spec:
  virtualHost:
    domains:
    - myapp.example.com
    routes:
    - matchers:
      - prefix: /
      routeAction:
        single:
          upstream:
            name: myapp
            namespace: gloo-system

Summary

Gloo Edge 1.17 continues to evolve as a leading API gateway, providing teams with powerful capabilities for managing APIs and microservices.