# kgateway

> Kgateway is a feature-rich, fast, and flexible API gateway that is built on top of Envoy proxy and the Kubernetes Gateway API. It excels in function-level routing, supports legacy apps, microservices and serverless, offers robust discovery capabilities, integrates seamlessly with open-source projects, and is designed to support hybrid applications with various technologies, architectures, protocols, and clouds.

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## Blog
- [My LFX Mentorship Journey with kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/my-lfx-mentorship-journey-with-kgateway/): Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the … - Published 2026-06-30
- [LFX Mentorship Journey: Ecosystem integrations & tutorials for AI Gateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/lfx-mentorship-2026-term1/): How the journey started Three months ago I received my acceptance for the LFX Mentorship Program and … - Published 2026-06-01
- [Securing Egress Traffic with kgateway, Istio Ambient Mesh, and Kyverno: LFX Mentorship Blog](https://kgateway.dev/blog/securing-egress-traffic-with-kgateway-istio-ambient-mesh-and-kyverno-lfx-mentorship-blog/): Modern Kubernetes platforms already secure in-cluster (east–west) communication through service … - Published 2026-03-12
- [Securing kgateway with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund](https://kgateway.dev/blog/github-secure-open-source/): Earlier this year, kgateway was selected to participate in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, an … - Published 2026-02-17
- [kgateway v2.2 release blog](https://kgateway.dev/blog/kgateway-v2.2-release-blog/): Kgateway v2.2 is packed with exciting new features and improvements. Here are a few select updates … - Published 2026-02-11
- [What Comes After Ingress NGINX? A Migration Guide to Gateway API](https://kgateway.dev/blog/ingress-nginx-migration-gateway-api/): With the latest news of the Ingress NGINX Controller migration, thousands of engineers are … - Published 2026-01-27
- [How Xepelin Runs Kubernetes Gateway API in Production with kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/how-xepelin-runs-kubernetes-gateway-api-in-production-with-kgateway/): Xepelin, one of the largest fintech companies in Latin America, was founded in Chile in 2019 and now … - Published 2026-01-09
- [Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know](https://kgateway.dev/blog/nginx-ingress-retirement-what-you-need-to-know/): During KubeCon NA last week, the Kubernetes community announced the Ingress NGINX retirement and … - Published 2025-11-18
- [kgateway v2.1 release blog](https://kgateway.dev/blog/kgateway-v2.1-release-blog/): We’re excited to announce the release kgateway v2.1, a release packed with exciting new features and … - Published 2025-10-10
- [Adding Distributed Tracing to AI Gateway: My LFX Mentorship Journey](https://kgateway.dev/blog/lfx-mentorship-2025-term2-zzk/): In today’s rapidly evolving AI application landscape, effectively monitoring and debugging AI … - Published 2025-08-28
- [llm-d - Distributed Inference Serving on Kubernetes](https://kgateway.dev/blog/llm-d-kgateway/): Today, Red Hat, Google, and IBM announced an exciting new open-source project called llm-d; a … - Published 2025-05-20
- [Delegation in kgateway - scaling routing with multi-tenant ownership](https://kgateway.dev/blog/delegation-kgateway/): As environments scale, traffic routing through Kubernetes gateways naturally becomes increasingly … - Published 2025-05-09
- [Designing kgateway for Scalability – Not All Gateways Are Created Equal](https://kgateway.dev/blog/design-kgateway-for-scalability/): With the Kubernetes Gateway API becoming the de facto standard for managing traffic into, out of, … - Published 2025-05-07
- [Get Better Results from your LLM with AI Gateway Prompt Enrichment](https://kgateway.dev/blog/ai-gateway-prompt-enrichment/): Prompting is more than just typing something into a chat and hoping the AI understands you. If … - Published 2025-05-02
- [How prioritized model load-balancing helps keep your AI-powered workloads running](https://kgateway.dev/blog/ai-gateway-load-balancing-model-failover/): When deploying workloads that rely on large language models (LLMs) in production, an important, yet … - Published 2025-05-02
- [Dive into Basic Prompt Guardrails with kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/ai-gateway-basic-guardrails/): Earlier this year, Solo.io’s Field CTO, Christian Posta, posted this article Navigating … - Published 2025-05-01
- [Transformations in kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/transformation-in-kgateway/): Transformations are a feature in kgateway that allows for the transformation of an incoming request … - Published 2025-04-17
- [Extend Istio Ambient Mesh with Kgateway as Waypoints](https://kgateway.dev/blog/extend-istio-ambient-kgateway-waypoint/): Ambient mesh is the new sidecarless data plane mode in the Istio service mesh. One of the key … - Published 2025-04-14
- [Understanding Gateway API Basics](https://kgateway.dev/blog/understanding-gateway-api-basics/): Understanding Gateway API BasicsIn the previous blog in this series, we discussed the Kubernetes … - Published 2025-04-05
- [Microgateway Patterns with kgateway and Ambient](https://kgateway.dev/blog/microgateway-patterns-kgateway-ambient/): Microgateway Patterns with kgateway and AmbientLegacy API gateways like Apigee and cloud provider … - Published 2025-04-04
- [Canary Deployments with kgateway and Argo Rollouts](https://kgateway.dev/blog/canary-deployments-argo-rollouts/): IntroductionA canary deployment is a technique that allows teams to release a new version of … - Published 2025-04-01
- [Exploring the Gateway API's HTTPRoute](https://kgateway.dev/blog/exploring-gateway-api-httproute/): An HTTPRoute resource is the main resource in the Kubernetes Gateway API to define HTTP routing … - Published 2025-03-28
- [Shared Gateways in kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/shared-gateways/): In part 1 of this blog series, we explored persona-based management as a new concept of the … - Published 2025-03-28
- [Policy attachments with kgateway and Gateway API](https://kgateway.dev/blog/policy-attachments/): One of the major shortcomings of the venerable Kubernetes Ingress API was in the area of … - Published 2025-03-21
- [Supporting Service Mesh with kgateway and Gateway API](https://kgateway.dev/blog/supporting-service-mesh-kgateway-gateway-api/): A service mesh allows you to configure and control traffic between Kubernetes services that are … - Published 2025-03-20
- [Configuring HTTPS routes with the Gateway API](https://kgateway.dev/blog/configuring-https-routes-gateway-api/): In the previous blog, we explored a straightforward example of configuring an ingress route for a … - Published 2025-03-14
- [Guide to Installing kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/guide-to-installing-kgateway/): kgateway is an implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API developed by Solo.io and donated to the … - Published 2025-03-06
- [Introduction to the Kubernetes Gateway API](https://kgateway.dev/blog/introduction-to-kubernetes-gateway-api/): Kubernetes has come a long way since its early days of exposing services via the original Ingress … - Published 2025-03-05
- [Five Learnings from Seven Years of Building Gloo and kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/five-learnings-from-seven-years-of-building-gloo-and-kgateway/): We started Gloo Open Source in 2018, reaching GA in early 2019. Since then, we have grown Gloo … - Published 2025-03-04
- [Navigating DeepSeek R1, Security Concerns, and Guardrails](https://kgateway.dev/blog/navigating-deepseek-r1/): DeepSeek R1 is a new model from Chinese startup DeepSeek released on January 20 with impressive … - Published 2025-01-29
- [Advancing Open Source Gateways with the CNCF and kgateway](https://kgateway.dev/blog/advancing-open-source-gateways/): At KubeCon NA 2024, Solo.io announced its intention to donate the Gloo Gateway open source project … - Published 2025-01-28


## Documentation


### Kgateway (Envoy)

- [Kgateway 2.1.x](https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/2.1.x/llms.txt)

- [Kgateway 2.2.x](https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/2.2.x/llms.txt)

- [Kgateway 2.3.x](https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/llms.txt)

- [Kgateway 2.4.x](https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/main/llms.txt)


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