Overview

KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go. KrakenD is a stateless, high-performance API gateway built for modern microservices. Open source, self-hosted, and trusted by enterprises worldwide. The project has 3K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

Content aggregation, composition, and filtering: Create views and mashups of aggregated content from your APIs.
Content Manipulation and format transformation: Change responses, convert transparently from XML to JSON, and vice-versa.
Security: Zero-trust policy, CORS, OAuth, JWT, HSTS, clickjacking protection, HPKP, MIME-Sniffing prevention, XSS protection…
Concurrent calls: Serve content faster than consuming backends directly.
SSL and HTTP2 ready
Throttling: Limits of usage in the router and proxy layers
Multi-layer rate-limiting for the end-user and between KrakenD and your services, including bursting, load balancing, and circuit breaker.
Telemetry and dashboards of all sorts: Datadog, Zipkin, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana…
Extensible with Go plugins, Lua scripts, Martian, or Google CEL spec.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, kubernetes, rest api.

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Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

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Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

REST API

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