Why Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes?
Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes is based on the open source Spring Cloud Gateway project: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-gateway. Spring Cloud Gateway is a library for building high-performance APIs. You deploy it like a normal Spring app and configure it like you would configure a Spring app. Unfortunately, the open source project doesn’t do much to address many of the problems mentioned previously – problems commonly encountered in the enterprise.
In addition to their business logic, developers must also package, configure, and deploy a Spring Cloud Gateway app, or bundle it into their existing app as a library. Either way, it’s a significant amount of added complexity. Unless they’re using some advanced features of the Spring Framework, any changes to their API’s routes will involve rebuilding and redeploying the app.
Furthermore, the open source Spring Cloud Gateway leaves some of the...