Feature comparison
Review the features that Gloo Gateway provides to you on top of what is offered by the open source Istio project.
For a comparison of the features you get with a Gloo Gateway license versus a standard Gloo Gateway license or the open source, basic version of an Istio ingress gateway, see the following table.Feature | Gloo Gateway | Istio ingress | |
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Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) | ✅ | ✅ | |
TLS termination | ✅ | ✅ | |
Header manipulation | ✅ | ✅ | |
Retries, redirects, timeouts, fault injection, and outlier detection | ✅ | ✅ | |
Mirroring | ✅ | ✅ | |
Request and respone transformations | ✅ | ❌ | |
Federation | ✅ | ❌ | |
Advanced rate limiting | ✅ | ❌ | |
Advanced security including WAF and DLP | ✅ | ❌ | |
Advanced external authentication for OIDC, OPA, API keys, and LDAP | ✅ | ❌ | |
Advanced traffic routing and shaping, such as direct responses and route delegation | ✅ | ❌ | |
Advanced locality-based and multicluster routing | ✅ | ❌ |