KrakenD Community Edition
High-performance, stateless, declarative API gateway
KrakenD Community Edition is an open-source, high-performance API gateway designed for microservices and distributed architectures. It provides a stateless runtime that scales horizontally without centralized coordination, using declarative configuration to define routing and gateway behavior.
Key Features
- Stateless, distributed architecture designed for linear horizontal scalability
- Declarative configuration suited for GitOps-style API lifecycle management
- Reverse proxy and API gateway capabilities for REST-style backends
- API aggregation/composition and response shaping (filtering and transformation)
- Traffic control features such as throttling and rate limiting
- Security features including CORS support and token-based auth patterns (for example JWT)
- Observability integrations via exporters for metrics, logs, and traces
- Extensibility through plugins and scripting (including Go plugins and Lua)
Use Cases
- Unified gateway for microservices with centralized policy enforcement
- Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) APIs that aggregate multiple services into one endpoint
- High-throughput edge gateway with rate limiting and observability integration
KrakenD-CE is a strong fit when you want a fast, lightweight API gateway delivered as a single binary, while keeping configuration and operational workflows compatible with modern CI/CD and infrastructure automation practices.
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