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Deploy agentgateway as a waypoint proxy to enforce Layer 7 policies for apps in your ambient mesh.
The agentgateway waypoint feature is in the alpha state. Alpha features are likely to change, are not fully tested, and are not supported for production. For more information, see Solo feature maturity.
This feature requires the following licenses. Contact your account representative to obtain valid licenses.
  • Your ambient mesh must be installed with the Solo distribution of Istio and an Enterprise-level license for Solo Enterprise for Istio.
  • A Solo Enterprise for agentgateway license.
Solo Enterprise for agentgateway is a lightweight, AI-aware proxy that you can deploy as a waypoint in your ambient mesh using the enterprise-agentgateway-waypoint GatewayClass. The agentgateway control plane runs alongside the Istio control plane and is compatible with multicluster and multi-network ambient mesh peering. Unlike the community istio-waypoint, agentgateway uses a CEL-based policy model (EnterpriseAgentgatewayPolicy) with no EnvoyFilter dependency, and adds native support for AI workloads: routing to LLM providers, token-based rate limiting, and MCP targets.
Use agentgateway as a waypoint when you need:
  • CEL-based authorization: Match on source identity, HTTP method, path, and header attributes in a single policy expression, without writing EnvoyFilters.
  • AI and agentic workloads: Route traffic to OpenAI, Anthropic, or other LLM providers and configure MCP backends for agent-to-tool communication.
  • Rate limiting: Apply request-based, token-based, or CEL-based limits to services using RateLimitConfig.
  • Multicluster mesh: Deploy across clusters in a Solo distribution of Istio peering topology with full multi-network support.
  • Workload identity propagation: Forward or exchange WIMSE Workload Identity Tokens for outbound requests to external services.
For the community istio-waypoint GatewayClass, see Configure waypoints.
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