Capabilities

Below is a summary of capabilities you'll be able to leverage as a user of TEG.

Traffic Management

• Advanced load balancing algorithms
• Traffic routing based on various criteria (e.g., path, headers, etc.)
• Traffic splitting and mirroring for canary deployments and blue-green deployments
• Configure and handle redirects

Security

• mTLS (mutual TLS) for secure client to gateway and gateway to backend traffic
• Verify JWT (JSON Web Token) access tokens
• Integration with Coraza WAF with Tetrate Enterprise Gateway
• Integrate with OIDC Providers to put resources behind login
• FIPS verified build

Observability

• Customizable detailed metrics and logging
• Distributed tracing support
• Integration with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)

Extensibility

• Utilize External Processing for custom extensions
• Support for WASM (WebAssembly) filters
• Integration with external authorization systems

Protocol Support

• HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3
• gRPC and WebSocket
• TCP and UDP

Integration

• Seamless integration with Kubernetes resources and service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd, Consul)
• A Kubernetes Gateway API Implementation
• Support for cloud-native environments and hybrid deployments with the ability to route traffic to Kubernetes hosted services as well as services external to Kubernetes

Operational Simplicity

• Simplified configuration and management via the Gateway API and Envoy Gateway API
• Automation of common tasks (e.g., certificate management) with cert-manager integration
• Kubernetes native implementation suitable for large-scale deployments across cloud providers and on-prem kubernetes clusters

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