Deploy an Application Gateway

Tetrate Application Gateway uses a two-tier topology. The back-end stage in this topology is the App (or 'Tier-2') Gateway:

An App Gateway is deployed in each of your application (workload) K8s clusters. You can install several deployments of the App Gateway if desired, for example, if you have several applications tenants in the cluster and want to partition traffic to avoid noisy-neighbor issues or to isolate each tenant from each other. The App Gateways receive traffic from the downstream Edge gateways over the internal mTLS mesh.

The cluster also contains the Tetrate control plane component that reports status and metrics, and manages the configuration of the local App gateways.

Automated (demo) Deployment

If you are using the Automated Deployment for a single-step demo deploy, then an App Gateway and control plane is automatically deployed:

The App cluster is also pre-loaded with a set of applications and services that you can expose.

Manual Deployment

You can onboard your own K8s workload cluster and install the Tetrate control plane and App Gateway deployments.

App Gateway installation

App Gateway installation instructions to follow