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)
- [**Quick Start**](#quick-start)
## 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）
## Quick Start
### 1. Local Environment
#### step 1. install kubectl & kind
**On MacOS**
```bash
curl -Lo ./kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
# for Intel Macs
[ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ]&& curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.17.0/kind-darwin-amd64
# for M1 / ARM Macs
[ $(uname -m) = arm64 ] && curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.17.0/kind-darwin-arm64
chmod +x ./kind ./kubectl
mv ./kind ./kubectl /some-dir-in-your-PATH/
```
**On Windows in PowerShell:**
```bash
curl.exe -Lo kubectl.exe https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl.exe -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe
curl.exe -Lo kind-windows-amd64.exe https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.17.0/kind-windows-amd64
Move-Item .\kind-windows-amd64.exe c:\some-dir-in-your-PATH\kind.exe
Move-Item .\kubectl.exe c:\some-dir-in-your-PATH\kubectl.exe
```
**On Linux:**
```bash
curl -Lo ./kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.17.0/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kind ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kind ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kind
```
#### step 2. create kind cluster
```bash
cat <