gRPC

gRPC is a popular open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment and is commonly used to connect microservices within and across data centers.

Learn how you can configure Gloo Gateway to route requests to gRPC upstreams.

• About the gRPC API: Learn about the gRPC framework, its benefits, and how gRPC transcoding works.

• Set up routing to gRPC services: Use a demo app to explore how to set up routing to a gRPC upstream in Gloo Gateway.

• Transcode HTTP requests to gRPC: Explore gRPC transcoding and learn how to annotate your proto files with HTTP rules. You can then configure Gloo Gateway to accept incoming HTTP requests and transform them into gRPC requests.

• Transcoding reference: Find examples for how to annotate your proto files with HTTP rule mappings so that Gloo Gateway can correctly transform incoming HTTP requests.