kgateway

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kgateway is ranked #14 of 27 in Kubernetes ingress controllers on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted.

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Solo Enterprise for kgateway Not published Pricing is tailored to the environment and use case; contact Solo for an estimate. Pricing varies by deployment; no single price list stated solo.io · 29 Sept 2026

Compared on Kubernetes ingress controllers

Free plan: Yes
Ingress API model: both
TLS automation: Yes
Canary routing: Yes
Rate limiting: Yes
Web application firewall: Yes
Auth policies: Yes
Deployment model: self-hosted

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The record

Purpose: Kgateway is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway control plane that configures an Envoy data plane using the Kubernetes Gateway API.
Use cases: The project describes security, traffic management, and resilience as kgateway use cases.
Scale: Kgateway supports deployments ranging from lightweight microgateways between services to centralized gateways handling billions of API calls.
Traffic features: Documented capabilities include routing and aggregation, load balancing, rate limiting, traffic splitting, and request transformations.
Security: Documented security features include TLS and mTLS, external authentication, API keys, JWT, OAuth2/OIDC, IP access control, and rate limiting.
Resilience: The documentation lists circuit breakers, fault injection, retries, timeouts, and outlier detection among its resilience features.
Integrations: Documented integrations include Istio, AWS load balancers, Argo Rollouts, ExternalDNS, cert-manager, and OpenTelemetry.
Installation: The kgateway control plane installs into a Kubernetes cluster using Helm or Argo CD.
Supported audience: The maker describes Solo Enterprise for kgateway and Istio as serving API pioneers and Kubernetes platform teams.
Support: Solo offers free community support through its Gloo Community and public GitHub repository.
Open source status: Kgateway is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
Project history: Kgateway launched in 2018 as Gloo and was originally created by Solo.io.
Naming scope: The kgateway documentation directs AI, MCP, and LLM connectivity readers to the separate Agentgateway project.
Founded: 2018

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Kubernetes Ingress Controllers in 2026#14 of 27

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Sources

kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/about/overview/· checked 29 Sept 2026
kgateway.dev· checked 29 Sept 2026
kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/security/· checked 29 Sept 2026
kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/install/· checked 29 Sept 2026
solo.io/company/about-us· checked 29 Sept 2026
solo.io/company/get-support· checked 29 Sept 2026
kgateway.dev/docs/· checked 29 Sept 2026
solo.io/pricing· checked 29 Sept 2026