Gatekeeper is an Gatekeeper proxy with rich API entitlement functionality. It uses Envoy as a proxy.

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Repository Structure
• Contributing and Support
• License
• Disclaimer

Gatekeeper offers a simple REST api to unlock Envoyproxy's advancing routing capabilities:

• Gatekeeper supports TLS for downstream and upstream traffic.

• Dynamic Routing: Gatekeeper can route traffic across multiple backends.

• High Availability: by allowing retry behaviour to be configured per path to reduce error rates.

• Health Checks: Gatekeeper can actively monitor backends.

• Gatekeeper's authentication has detailed metrics on authentication and authorization.

• Envoyproxy offer detailed request metrics on error rates, response latencies, request size.

• Ease of deployment: it consists out 3 containers and a Cassandra database as data store.

• Designed for multi cloud region deployment by default.

Gatekeeper provides API entitlement management:

• Administration of API developers and their applications.

• Fine grained access control to backends by defining API products.

• Authenticate and authorize developer applications using API Keys and/or OAuth2.

• docs: All documentation:

  • Architecture High-level overview.

  • deployment: Deployment documentation of each component.

  • api: management API specification.

  • examples: Example management API calls.

• build: Scripts for packaging Gatekeeper components in Docker images.

• deployment: example Docker compose configuration.

• cmd: Source code of individual Gatekeeper components.

• pkg: Source code of shared Gatekeeper components.

Please note Gatekeeper is still under heavy development, but feel free to open a Github issue!

Apache v2, some of Gatekeeper's API is inspired by work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License

Gatekeeper is current under heavy development.