[HN Gopher] Apache Apisix: Open-Source API Gateway and API Manag...
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Apache Apisix: Open-Source API Gateway and API Management Platform
Author : jjzhiyuan
Score : 74 points
Date : 2022-09-15 16:23 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| pachico wrote:
| Anybody has any idea about how this compares to Kong (what I've
| been using for years)?
| s1k3s wrote:
| I have no experience with any of these but maybe this helps:
| https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2022/07/30/why-we-need-apache...
| samsk wrote:
| Nice, thanks for sharing. It seems like an improved Kong,
| using the good parts of it, like Nginx and Lua. It makes me
| want to use it instead of the usual Kong, in next project.
| pachico wrote:
| Lua doesn't make it easy to create your own plugins at all.
| Kong guys themselves tried to offer a good use experience
| for this but failed more than once.
| pachico wrote:
| Also, it's not true that you need a database to run Kong.
| You can make it run with a declarative config.
| matt-p wrote:
| What is the main benefit to running a gateway? Auth should
| already be handled by the api and adding things like rate
| limiting, ip address filtering ,caching and so on are
| ridiculously trivial..
| VWWHFSfQ wrote:
| Most of the time an "API Gateway" provides nothing. Usually
| this kind of service is just looking at the request path and
| maybe the Authorization header. In general it's just a useless
| hop in the TCP connection chain from the client to the server.
| zedpm wrote:
| While you _can_ tack all of those things on to your API, many
| people (myself included) prefer to separate those concerns. A
| dedicated API Gateway can prevent a lot of additional load from
| hitting the backend services. A gateway can also be a nice
| abstraction of the public interface from the underlying
| service(s).
| Proven wrote:
| I was reluctant to click on the link expecting another Java
| project, but it seems to be based on Go. Refreshing. Maybe I'll
| give it a try.
| twsted wrote:
| Mostly Lua, it seems.
| haolez wrote:
| For my use case, this would have to be incredibly awesome for it
| to justify self-hosting such a complex and critical system. My
| current go-to solutions are AWS API Gateway, Azure API Manager
| and Apigee.
| pachico wrote:
| I share your concern about managing solutions. I only know AWS
| API gateway but I can tell you the features it offers are very
| limited compare to Foss solutions
| staticassertion wrote:
| I can't find the code. My biggest problem with Envoy is it's in
| C++, what's this written in?
| 0x457 wrote:
| This is based on OpenResty, so it's Nginx (C) + LutJit.
| However, it supports external plugins (any language) and WASM
| plugins.
| staticassertion wrote:
| Bummer, pass.
| yvan wrote:
| https://github.com/apache/apisix
|
| Looks like mostly Lua because it based on OpenResty
| coolgoose wrote:
| I had to investigate a bit various options and settled on krakend
| mostly since it's simple and easy to write custom Middleware.
| splix wrote:
| What is the advantage of using this compared to plain Nginx or
| Envoy? Is it just static vs. dynamic config for routing?
| e1g wrote:
| "envoy" is another popular option and they are building a gateway
| solution for API/inbound traffic
| https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway
| rektide wrote:
| OT but are any ingress/gateway systems using uring yet?
|
| Really enjoyed reading CloudFlare's justification for wrtiting
| Pingora gateway recently[1], a similar-ish system. Im interested
| to see what systems tech (what system calls) it ends up using.
|
| There's a ton of really great ingress/gateway tech out there.
| Kubernetes has a sublist that's pretty long[2]. There's a good
| comparison matrix[3] I ran into & it immediately made me very
| interested in APISIX ( _lots_ of box ticking). I think at one
| point I 'd also run into a benchmark somewhere & they were quite
| performant, top tier. Would be interested to know more about
| tbeir chosen architecture & what if any performance optimizations
| they have planned/roadmapped/are-thinking-about.
|
| [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-
| proxy-t... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32836661
| (362points, 1d ago, 92comments)
|
| [2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-
| networking/ingr...
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| [3] https://kubedex.com/ingress/
| colonelpopcorn wrote:
| I was trying to find a simple API gateway I could run as a
| single docker container on a single host. I ended up using a
| node-red workflow instead, because I was unable to get any of
| the options available to me working behind Traefik as my proxy.
| I tried APIMan first, then APISIX, then API Umbrella (used and
| developed by US government agency, apparently), and finally
| Kong. I got the closest with Kong, but decided to just give
| node-red a try and it worked like a charm as a proxy for
| another API.
| nijave wrote:
| You can run envoy pretty easily like that but the config can
| be a bit heavy (imo) unless you really want to read through
| the docs
|
| Here's an example (top Google result)
| https://amalaruja.medium.com/basic-http-routing-
| strategies-w...
| zcmack wrote:
| doesn't traefik provide much of the functionality you'd want
| from an api gateway?
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