Gloo Edge Federation

Gloo Edge Federation adds the following capabilities to Gloo Edge:

• Federated configuration: You can manage the configuration for all of your Gloo Edge instances from one place, no matter what platform the instances run on.
• Cross-cluster failover: Gloo Edge automatically re-routes requests to the gateway of the closest cluster if the service is not available locally.
• Multicluster RBAC: You can control user access to view and configure Gloo Edge resources across clusters based on the user role.

The following sections describe how to use Gloo Edge Federation.

• Quick demo: Run a quick demo of Gloo Federation in a local environment

• Installation: How and where to deploy Gloo Edge Federation

• Cluster Registration: Registering a cluster with Gloo Edge Federation

• Federated Configuration: Setting up federated configuration

• Service Failover: Creating a failover service in Gloo Edge Federation

• Multicluster RBAC: Applying role-based access control to multiple Gloo Edge instances

• Read-only Console: Accessing the Gloo Edge Federation read-only console