Traffic Management

Gloo Gateway has a powerful routing engine that can handle simple use cases like API-to-API routing as well as more complex ones like HTTP to gRPC with body and header transformations. Routing can also be done natively to cloud-function providers like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions and Azure Functions.

Gloo Gateway can route requests directly to functions, which can be: a serverless function call (e.g. AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Function, Microsoft Azure Function) or an API call on a microservice or a legacy service (e.g. a REST API call, OpenAPI operation, gRPC operation). This unique ability is what makes Gloo Gateway the only API gateway that supports hybrid apps, as well as the only one that does not tie the user to a specific paradigm.

Concepts

Review the following pages to understand the basic concepts for Gloo Gateway traffic management.

Examples

Now that you have a basic framework for understanding what Gloo Gateway routing does, let’s get started with a Hello World example. After you’re comfortable implementing a basic configuration, you can move to more advanced use cases and expand your understanding of core concepts in Gloo Gateway like Transformations and Network Security.