# kgateway

Envoy-based API gateway and ingress controller for Kubernetes that implements the Kubernetes Gateway API.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/kgateway/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://kgateway.dev
- repository: https://github.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway
- docs: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/
- x: https://x.com/kgatewaydev
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kgateway.dev
- mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@kgateway
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kgateway-dev

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: LF Projects, LLC
- maintainerType: foundation
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2018
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: backend, web-server
- hosting: unknown
- language: go
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: envoy

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: helm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-16

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5728
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 290
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://kgateway.dev/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://kgateway.dev/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/quickstart/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/kgateway-dev/kgateway (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/ (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainerType: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/ (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://kgateway.dev/ (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://kgateway.dev/ (read 2026-10-30)
- basedOn: https://github.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/kgateway-dev/kgateway (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://kgateway.dev/docs/envoy/latest/install/helm/ (read 2026-10-30)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway/releases/tag/v2.4.7 (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway/releases/tag/v2.4.7 (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kgateway-dev/kgateway/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/kgateway-dev/kgateway (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/kgateway-dev/kgateway/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

kgateway is an API gateway and ingress controller for Kubernetes that implements the Kubernetes Gateway API. It is built on Envoy, and its control plane is installed into a cluster with Helm. The project was launched in 2018 as Gloo by Solo.io, and it is now maintained under LF Projects, LLC and is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.

## Worth knowing

kgateway is the successor to Gloo Gateway, and its own site says it was known as Gloo. Since a 2.x release the agentgateway control plane lives in a separate repository, so that project is not part of kgateway's own code.

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