kgateway-dev/kgateway
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 3
- age_days: 3145
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 72
Adoption not part of the score
5670 stars · 800 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
kgateway is a Kubernetes-native API gateway and ingress controller that implements the Kubernetes Gateway API as a control plane for Envoy Proxy. It centralizes traffic routing, authentication, authorization, and rate limiting for microservices, serverless, and legacy backends, scaling from lightweight microgateways to gateways handling billions of API calls.
Use cases
- expose kubernetes services to the internet with an ingress controller
- manage api authentication and rate limiting in one gateway
- migrate from ingress nginx to the gateway api
- route traffic to microservices, serverless functions, and legacy apps
- run a gateway api-native envoy control plane in kubernetes
- apply retries, timeouts, and circuit breaking to api traffic
- secure and govern llm and ai agent traffic at the gateway
When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want a standards-based Gateway API controller
- you need a battle-tested Envoy-based gateway for high-scale API traffic
- you are migrating off Ingress NGINX and want automated conversion tooling
- you need hybrid routing across microservices, serverless, and legacy apps
- you want centralized auth, rate limiting, and traffic policies at the edge
When to avoid
- you need a simple non-Kubernetes reverse proxy for a single app
- your stack is VM-based with no container orchestration
- you want a lightweight edge proxy without a Kubernetes control plane
- you need deep AI/agent/MCP-specific gateway features, which live in the separate agentgateway project
Facets
service · maturity stable
api-gateway routing middleware auth authorization rate-limiting http-server proxy websocket rpc apis microservices cloud-computing networking security backend large-language-models cloud self-hosted go windows envoy-proxy gateway-api kubernetes-ingress traffic-management ingress-controller ai-gateway grpc service-mesh helm ingress-nginx-migration containers devops kubernetes docker linux macos
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway · fetched 2026-08-28 · 13794e3632b8
- homepage: https://kgateway.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · 10c5c6ace07e
- site_page: https://kgateway.dev/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4bc4b4e6a928
- site_page: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · 548668c5528f
- site_page: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/migrate · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7a34980ce1b5
- site_page: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/about/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · cfd378235d67
- site_page: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/setup · fetched 2026-08-29 · d2e47cfb175f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kgateway-dev/kgateway | main | 95 |
For agents
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