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kgateway.dev

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Spec score 7.0 #22 of 28 in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

Spec sheet

Purpose
Kgateway is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway control plane that configures an Envoy data plane using the Kubernetes Gateway API.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Integrations
Documented integrations include Istio, AWS load balancers, Argo Rollouts, ExternalDNS, cert-manager, and OpenTelemetry.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Security
Documented security features include TLS and mTLS, external authentication, API keys, JWT, OAuth2/OIDC, IP access control, and rate limiting.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Support
Solo offers free community support through its Gloo Community and public GitHub repository.Read 29 Sep 2026 · solo.io
Founded
2018Read 28 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Installation
The kgateway control plane installs into a Kubernetes cluster using Helm or Argo CD.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Naming scope
The kgateway documentation directs AI, MCP, and LLM connectivity readers to the separate Agentgateway project.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Open source status
Kgateway is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Project history
Kgateway launched in 2018 as Gloo and was originally created by Solo.io.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Resilience
The documentation lists circuit breakers, fault injection, retries, timeouts, and outlier detection among its resilience features.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Scale
Kgateway supports deployments ranging from lightweight microgateways between services to centralized gateways handling billions of API calls.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Supported audience
The maker describes Solo Enterprise for kgateway and Istio as serving API pioneers and Kubernetes platform teams.Read 29 Sep 2026 · solo.io
Traffic features
Documented capabilities include routing and aggregation, load balancing, rate limiting, traffic splitting, and request transformations.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev
Use cases
The project describes security, traffic management, and resilience as kgateway use cases.Read 29 Sep 2026 · kgateway.dev

Plans and prices

Solo Enterprise for kgateway Priced on request Pricing is tailored to the environment and use case; contact Solo for an estimate. Pricing varies by deployment; no single price list stated Read 29 Sep 2026 · solo.io

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