Kuadrant: Gateway Policies For Kubernetes
Red Hat News, Thursday, October 19,2023
Gateways play a pivotal role in application connectivity. In the Kubernetes cloud-native world, Gateway API is gaining traction as a powerful standard for defining gateways and exposing your applications and services in a security-focused and scalable way. Kuadrant, a Red Hat-sponsored project, brings together Gateway API and Policies to help you scale, load-balance, and secure your gateways in single or multi-cluster environments.
What are we announcing?
Earlier this year, we wrote about how you can use Kuadrant to add rate limiting and AuthN/Z to your services. Since then we have evolved those policies and developed some new policies with a focus on solving large-scale multi-cluster application connectivity problems. We have been busy working on our first upstream release, with lots of documentation updates, new guides, and reference material, and we are pleased to announce it is now ready.
In this post, we have included more details on what the project is, who it is for, how it works and what's coming in the future. However, if you'd prefer to jump in and try it out yourself, give our quickstart a go.