APIcast
An NGINX-based API gateway for the Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform, offering high performance, scalability, and extensible policies.
What is APIcast?
APIcast is an API gateway built on NGINX that serves as part of the Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform. It handles API traffic management, security, rate limiting, and monitoring, providing a scalable solution for enterprises to expose and control their APIs. It integrates with identity providers and supports extensible policies for custom workflows.
API platform engineers, DevOps teams, and organizations using Red Hat 3scale who need a performant, scalable gateway to manage and secure API traffic. It's also suitable for developers building custom API management solutions with NGINX.
Developers choose APIcast for its high performance leveraging NGINX and LuaJIT, stateless scalability, and flexible policy framework. It offers enterprise-grade features like OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus monitoring, and OIDC integration out of the box, making it a robust open-source alternative within the 3scale ecosystem.
Overview
3scale API Gateway
Use Cases
Best For
- Managing and securing API traffic in microservices architectures
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