APISIX is a cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices.
APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and plug-in hot loading, which is especially suitable for API management under micro-service system.
APISIX is a cloud-based microservices API gateway that handles traditional north-south traffic and handles east-west traffic between services, and can also be used as a k8s ingress controller.
APISIX provides dynamic load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, other plugins through plugin mechanisms, and supports plugins you develop yourself.
For more detailed information, see the [White Paper](https://www.iresty.com/download/Choosing%20the%20Right%20Microservice%20API%20Gateway%20for%20the%20Enterprise%20User.pdf).
You can use Apache APISIX as a traffic entrance to process all business data, including dynamic routing, dynamic upstream, dynamic certificates,
A/B testing, canary release, blue-green deployment, limit rate, defense against malicious attacks, metrics, monitoring alarms, service observability, service governance, etc.
- **All platforms**
- Cloud-Native: Platform agnostic, No vendor lock-in, APISIX can run from bare-metal to Kubernetes.
- Run Environment: Both OpenResty and Tengine are supported.
- Supports [ARM64](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/84467919): Don't worry about the lock-in of the infra technology.
- [Dynamic MQTT Proxy](doc/plugins/mqtt-proxy.md): Supports to load balance MQTT by `client_id`, both support MQTT [3.1.*](http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v3.1.1/os/mqtt-v3.1.1-os.html), [5.0](https://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/mqtt-v5.0.html).
- [Proxy Rewrite](doc/plugins/proxy-rewrite.md): Support rewrite the `host`, `uri`, `schema`, `enable_websocket`, `headers` of the request before send to upstream.
- [Health Checks](doc/health-check.md): Enable health check on the upstream node, and will automatically filter unhealthy nodes during load balancing to ensure system stability.
- [Support all Nginx built-in variables as conditions for routing](/doc/router-radixtree.md#how-to-filter-route-by-nginx-builtin-variable), so you can use `cookie`,` args`, etc. as routing conditions to implement canary release, A/B testing, etc.
- Support [various operators as judgment conditions for routing](https://github.com/iresty/lua-resty-radixtree#operator-list), for example `{"arg_age", ">", 24}`
- Support [custom route matching function](https://github.com/iresty/lua-resty-radixtree/blob/master/t/filter-fun.t#L10)
- [IdP](doc/plugins/oauth.md): Support external authentication services, such as Auth0, okta, etc., users can use this to connect to OAuth 2.0 and other authentication methods.
- Anti-ReDoS(Regular expression Denial of Service): Built-in policies to Anti ReDoS without configuration.
- **OPS friendly**
- OpenTracing: [support Apache Skywalking and Zipkin](doc/plugins/zipkin.md)
- Monitoring And Metrics: [Prometheus](doc/plugins/prometheus.md)
- Clustering: APISIX nodes are stateless, creates clustering of the configuration center, please refer to [etcd Clustering Guide](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/v2/clustering.md).
- Dashboard: Built-in dashboard to control APISIX.
- Version Control: Supports rollbacks of operations.
- CLI: start\stop\reload APISIX through the command line.
- [Stand-alone mode](doc/stand-alone.md): Supports to load route rules from local yaml file, it is more friendly such as under the kubernetes(k8s).
- Global Rule: Allows to run any plugin for all request, eg: limit rate, IP filter etc.
- [Custom plugins](doc/plugin-develop.md): Allows hooking of common phases, such as `rewrite`, `access`, `header filer`, `body filter` and `log`, also allows to hook the `balancer` stage.
The dashboard allows any remote IP by default, and you can modify `allow_admin` in `conf/config.yaml` by yourself, to list the list of IPs allowed to access.
- [APISIX technology selection, testing and continuous integration](https://medium.com/@ming_wen/apache-apisixs-technology-selection-testing-and-continuous-integration-313221b02542)
- [Analysis of Excellent Performance of Apache APISIX Microservices Gateway](https://medium.com/@ming_wen/analysis-of-excellent-performance-of-apache-apisix-microservices-gateway-fc77db4090b5)
