Provides an AI-native API gateway for cloud-native applications, extending Envoy and Istio with Wasm plugins.
Higress is a cloud-native API gateway built upon Istio and Envoy, designed to address challenges faced by large-scale services like Tengine. It excels in supporting long-connection services and offers enhanced load balancing for gRPC/Dubbo. With a focus on AI, Higress acts as an AI Gateway, supporting various model providers and offering features such as AI observability, load balancing, rate limiting, and caching. It also functions as a Kubernetes ingress controller, a microservice gateway, and a security gateway, making it a versatile solution for modern application architectures.