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Spring Cloud Gateway

API gateway built on Project Reactor for building microservices

Overview

What Spring Cloud Gateway does

Spring Cloud Gateway is a library for building API gateways with Spring. It provides a simple yet effective way to route requests and apply cross-cutting concerns in microservices architecture.

What people use it for

  • API Development
  • API Gateway
  • API Testing
  • API Documentation
  • Microservices

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Spring Cloud Gateway.

  • Released under the Apache 2.0 license, free and open source with no commercial tier

Pricing

What Spring Cloud Gateway costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Open Source

Free

  • Core Spring Cloud Gateway
  • Community support

Capabilities

Features

  • Routing

    Routing capability

  • Path Rewriting

    Path Rewriting capability

  • Circuit Breaker

    Circuit Breaker capability

  • Spring Boot

    Integration with Spring Boot

  • Spring Security

    Integration with Spring Security

  • Spring Cloud

    Integration with Spring Cloud

  • Java support

    Available on Java

  • Spring Boot support

    Available on Spring Boot

Behind it

Who makes Spring Cloud Gateway

Company
VMware/Pivotal
Based in
Palo Alto, California, USA

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