Higress is an AI API gateway and cloud-native traffic manager that functions as a Kubernetes ingress controller. It provides a centralized system for routing, securing, and optimizing traffic directed toward large language models, AI agents, and microservice architectures.
The project distinguishes itself through deep AI orchestration, including the ability to host and manage Model Context Protocol servers that transform REST APIs into tools for AI agents. It features specialized AI infrastructure for model request proxying, protocol translation across multiple providers, and semantic-based caching to reduce token consumption and latency.
Broad capabilities cover API lifecycle management and traffic control, including canary releases, load balancing, and rate limiting. The system includes a comprehensive security suite with WAF filtering, OIDC and OAuth2 identity integration, and automated TLS certificate management. Extensibility is provided via a WebAssembly-based plugin system that allows for hot-loading custom logic without interrupting traffic.
The gateway can be deployed to Kubernetes or Docker and supports the Kubernetes Gateway API and Ingress standards.
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