krakend/krakend-ce
KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 24.5
- age_days: 3195
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 27
Adoption not part of the score
2668 stars · 499 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
KrakenD Community Edition is an open-source, stateless, high-performance API Gateway written in Go that aggregates, transforms, secures, and routes API traffic using declarative configuration. It scales linearly without coordination, supports microservices and AI workloads, and is extensible via Go plugins, Lua, and CEL.
Use cases
- expose a unified API gateway in front of my microservices
- aggregate multiple backend API responses into a single endpoint
- rate limit and throttle traffic to my backend services
- secure my APIs with JWT, OAuth, and CORS at the gateway
- convert XML backend responses to JSON for clients
- run a high-throughput stateless gateway in Kubernetes
- implement a backend-for-frontend layer for my apps
- proxy and route requests to AI/LLM workloads
When to choose
- you need a very high-throughput, low-memory stateless API gateway
- you want declarative GitOps-friendly configuration with a single binary
- you need API composition, aggregation, and response transformation at the edge
- you want multi-layer rate limiting, circuit breaking, and zero-trust security out of the box
When to avoid
- you need deep custom request-handling logic better expressed in a full application framework
- you require a plugin ecosystem with a large marketplace of prebuilt gateway extensions
- you need GUI-managed dynamic routing without declarative config files
Facets
service · maturity stable
api-gateway proxy routing rate-limiting middleware http-server graphql websocket monitoring auth apis microservices backend cloud-computing self-hosted large-language-models go cross-platform self-hosted cloud api-gateway reverse-proxy backend-for-frontend stateless declarative-configuration gitops ai-gateway high-performance circuit-breaker response-aggregation devops linux docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/krakend/krakend-ce · fetched 2026-08-28 · c6d264fe9f4c
- homepage: https://www.krakend.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8759e7acd0be
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/docs/enterprise/overview/playground · fetched 2026-08-29 · a17bddb2694b
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/docs/benchmarks · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2777a233184a
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/docs/overview/installing · fetched 2026-08-29 · feb00d4c485f
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/features · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3160f3f94a77
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 968c59e2a006
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/docs/configuration/designer · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0cd6dcc316c9
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/docs/overview/playground · fetched 2026-08-29 · a4c248d6f140
- site_page: https://www.krakend.io/team · fetched 2026-08-29 · 657531b62a50
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| krakend/krakend-ce | main | 99 |
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