Apache ShenYu

Apache ShenYu is a high-performance, asynchronous, and cross-language API gateway designed for traffic governance in microservices and cloud-native environments. It supports multiple protocols and provides dynamic routing, plugin extensibility, and observability features, making it ideal for managing service traffic at scale.

Features

• Protocol Support: Compatible with Apache Dubbo, Spring Cloud, gRPC, Motan, SOFA, TARS, WebSocket, and MQTT.
• Security: Includes support for OAuth 2.0, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), request signing, and a Web Application Firewall (WAF) plugin.
• API Governance: Offers request/response transformation, parameter mapping, Hystrix fallback, and rate limiting.
• Observability: Built-in tracing, metrics, and logging plugins for monitoring and diagnostics.
• Dashboard: Visual interface for dynamic traffic control and user permission management.
• Plugin System: Hot-swappable and dynamically loadable plugins for extensibility.
• Cluster Deployment: Supports NGINX, Docker, and Kubernetes for scalable deployment.
• Multi-language Clients: Provides API registration clients for Java, .NET, Python, and Go.

Capabilities

• Dynamic Routing: Uses selectors and rules to route requests based on URI patterns and headers.
• Plugin Chain Execution: Executes requests through a customizable chain of plugins.
• Data Caching and Sync: Uses in-memory caching with real-time updates via ZooKeeper, WebSocket, or HTTP long polling.
• Custom Plugin Development: Allows users to build and integrate their own plugins.
• Flexible Configuration: Supports configuration via admin dashboard or API, with real-time propagation.

Benefits

• Performance: Asynchronous architecture ensures low latency and high throughput.
• Extensibility: Modular plugin system allows easy customization and feature expansion.
• Cross-Platform: Works across languages and environments, supporting diverse microservice ecosystems.
• Ease of Use: Visual dashboard and simple configuration make it accessible for developers and operators.
• Scalability: Designed for large-scale deployments with support for container orchestration platforms.