Tech riderRev. 20 Sept 2026
- 1Runs onLinux
- 2CostsNot stated by the maker
- 3Deployment modelself-hosted
- 4Supported protocolsHTTP, HTTP/2, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- 5Authentication methodsFilter-based authentication, mutual TLS, custom authentication handlers
- 6Rate limitingYes
- 7Request transformationYes
6 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: github.com
Overview
Zuul is ranked #22 of 27 in API gateway software on Specifiction. It runs on Linux.
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- Deployment model
- self-hostedgithub.com
- Supported protocols
- HTTP, HTTP/2, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events (SSE)github.com
- Authentication methods
- Filter-based authentication, mutual TLS, custom authentication handlersgithub.com
- Rate limiting
- Yesgithub.com
- Request transformation
- Yesgithub.com
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