# easegress-io/easegress

A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)

Repository: https://github.com/easegress-io/easegress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/easegress
Homepage: https://megaease.com/easegress/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, http, api-gateway, gateway, traffic, load-balancer, etcd, raft, reverse-proxy, golang, mesh, proxy-server, sidecar, cloud-native, microservice, service-mesh, microservices, kubernetes, distributed-systems
Last push: 2026-07-20T04:40:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 63, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1923, "days_push": 44, "days_rel": 169, "gap_med": 43.5, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5867, forks 498 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:31.792106+00:00)

## What it is
Easegress is a cloud-native traffic orchestration system that acts as an API gateway, reverse proxy, and traffic manager with built-in Raft consensus for high availability. It lets you compose traffic pipelines from filters and integrates with Kubernetes Ingress and service meshes.

## Use cases
- run a high-availability api gateway
- reverse proxy with load balancing for microservices
- kubernetes ingress controller
- orchestrate http traffic pipelines with filters
- service mesh sidecar proxy
- canary deployment and traffic splitting

## When to choose
- you need a cloud-native gateway with raft-based HA
- you want programmable traffic pipelines in Go
- you need kubernetes ingress plus mesh sidecar from one system

## When to avoid
- you need a simple static reverse proxy without orchestration
- your stack is not Go/cloud-native oriented
- you want a fully managed gateway service

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: api-gateway, proxy, load-testing, routing, middleware, http-server, service-discovery, microservices
- domain: microservices, cloud-computing, networking, backend
- platform: go, windows, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: traffic-orchestration, reverse-proxy, service-mesh, sidecar, raft-consensus, cncf, ingress, high-availability, devops, kubernetes, docker, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- easegress-io/easegress (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.792106+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:51:36.739387+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/easegress-io/easegress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.792106+00:00, sha 47e8a8d5d8fe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.