Tyk Gateway

Tyk Gateway is a cloud-native, open source API gateway used to publish, secure, and manage APIs across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. It sits in front of upstream services to enforce authentication, traffic controls, and governance for multiple protocols.

Key Features

• Supports multiple protocols including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP proxying
• Authentication and authorization options including JWT and OpenID Connect
• Rate limiting, quotas, and traffic controls to protect upstream services
• Policy-based access control with per-API and per-endpoint restrictions
• Request/response transformation and content mediation
• Plugin and middleware extensibility (including gRPC-based plugins)
• Analytics and event hooks such as webhooks on gateway events
• Hot reload / hitless configuration reloads for minimal disruption

Use Cases

• Central API gateway for microservices with consistent auth and rate limits
• Exposing internal services to partners with granular access policies
• Managing mixed API styles (REST/GraphQL/gRPC) behind a single edge layer

Tyk Gateway is suitable for teams that need a flexible, high-performance gateway with strong policy controls and broad protocol support. It can be deployed as a lightweight gateway layer and expanded with additional Tyk components for broader API management needs.