Next-generation Cloud Native Gateway
Higress is a next-generation cloud-native gateway based on Alibaba's internal gateway practices.
Powered by [Istio](https://github.com/istio/istio) and [Envoy](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy), Higress realizes the integration of the triple gateway architecture of traffic gateway, microservice gateway and security gateway, thereby greatly reducing the costs of deployment, operation and maintenance.
## Summary
- [**Use Cases**](#use-cases)
- [**Higress Features**](#higress-features)
## Use Cases
- **Kubernetes ingress controller**:
Higress can function as a feature-rich ingress controller, which is compatible with many annotations of K8s' nginx ingress controller.
[Gateway API](https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/) support is in progress and will support smooth migration from Ingress API to Gateway API.
- **Microservice gateway**:
Higress can function as a microservice gateway, which can discovery microservices from various service registries, such as Nacos, ZooKeeper, Consul, etc.
It deeply integrates of [Dubbo](https://github.com/apache/dubbo), [Nacos](https://github.com/alibaba/nacos), [Sentinel](https://github.com/alibaba/Sentinel) and other microservice technology stacks.
- **Security gateway**:
Higress can be used as a security gateway, supporting WAF and various authentication strategies, such as key-auth, hmac-auth, jwt-auth, basic-auth, oidc, etc.
## Higress Features
（TODO）