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Overview
kgateway is ranked #11 of 27 in Kubernetes ingress controllers on Specifiction. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted.
kgateway plans and pricing
All plansSolo Enterprise for kgateway Not published Pricing is tailored to the environment and use case; contact Solo for an estimate. Pricing varies by deployment; no single price list stated solo.io · 29 Sept 2026
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- Deployment model
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Facts
- Purpose
- Kgateway is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway control plane that configures an Envoy data plane using the Kubernetes Gateway API.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Use cases
- The project describes security, traffic management, and resilience as kgateway use cases.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Scale
- Kgateway supports deployments ranging from lightweight microgateways between services to centralized gateways handling billions of API calls.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Traffic features
- Documented capabilities include routing and aggregation, load balancing, rate limiting, traffic splitting, and request transformations.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Security
- Documented security features include TLS and mTLS, external authentication, API keys, JWT, OAuth2/OIDC, IP access control, and rate limiting.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Resilience
- The documentation lists circuit breakers, fault injection, retries, timeouts, and outlier detection among its resilience features.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Documented integrations include Istio, AWS load balancers, Argo Rollouts, ExternalDNS, cert-manager, and OpenTelemetry.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Installation
- The kgateway control plane installs into a Kubernetes cluster using Helm or Argo CD.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Supported audience
- The maker describes Solo Enterprise for kgateway and Istio as serving API pioneers and Kubernetes platform teams.solo.io · 29 Sept 2026
- Support
- Solo offers free community support through its Gloo Community and public GitHub repository.solo.io · 29 Sept 2026
- Open source status
- Kgateway is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Project history
- Kgateway launched in 2018 as Gloo and was originally created by Solo.io.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
- Naming scope
- The kgateway documentation directs AI, MCP, and LLM connectivity readers to the separate Agentgateway project.kgateway.dev · 29 Sept 2026
Company
- Founded
- 2018kgateway.dev · 28 Sept 2026
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Sources
- kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/about/overview/· checked 29 Sept 2026
- kgateway.dev· checked 29 Sept 2026
- kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/security/· checked 29 Sept 2026
- kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/install/· checked 29 Sept 2026
- solo.io/company/about-us· checked 29 Sept 2026
- solo.io/company/get-support· checked 29 Sept 2026
- kgateway.dev/docs/· checked 29 Sept 2026
- solo.io/pricing· checked 29 Sept 2026