To wrap up the end of year, the Solo.io team is excited to announce the release of version 1.18 of Gloo Gateway. This release contains new major features including:
- Gloo AI Gateway is GA
- Updates to Kubernetes Gateway API 1.1/1.2
- Developer Portal upgrades
- “Virtual Destination" support
- ARM support
- Improved AWS Lambda support
Let’s review what these new features mean for Gloo Gateway users below.
Gloo AI Gateway is now GA
In November, we showcased the capabilities of Gloo AI Gateway in supporting third-party LLM consumption on stage at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City. In this release, we’re excited to continue the momentum with Gloo AI Gateway by building on the Gloo Gateway foundation to enhance security, observability, control, and governance features for LLM integration. In the v1.18 release, Gloo AI Gateway is now generally available and offers support for additional LLM upstream providers, the new ability to support advanced guardrails through fine-tuned SLMs, and load balancing across multiple LLM provider endpoints.
For in-depth instructions, tutorials and guides check out the Gloo AI Gateway documentation. You can also watch this informative session presented by Solo.io CEO and Founder, Idit Levine at KubeCon North America on ‘Harnessing the power of Envoy Proxy for building an LLM Gateway.’
If you want to get hands-on experience why not test out Gloo AI Gateway in our free labs here.
Upgrades with the Kubernetes Gateway API
In Gloo Gateway 1.17 release we released enterprise extensions to the Gateway API to extend our compliant implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API for Gloo Gateway users. In Gloo Gateway 1.18 we’ve maintained upstream conformity, by reaching compliance with Kubernetes Gateway API 1.1 and 1.2., helping users maintain the security and interoperability across their workloads.
A Self-Service Developer Portal
We’ve also continued to build out our developer portal experience. In Gloo Gateway 1.17 we introduced a new Developer Portal and API management experience. In this latest release, we’ve focused on advancing the portal’s self-service API management experience with new features including;
- Users can now manage credentials within an application with fine-grained API access control
- An extensible OAuth/OIDC Provider integration that allows organizations to provide OAuth credential self-service capabilities using the identity provider of their choice
- New user and team management capabilities that offer more control over API credentials management.
Multi-Cluster Routing Support
Gloo Gateway users can now build scalable, resilient and highly available architectures with this latest release. Gloo Gateway 1.18 now supports routing to destinations deployed across multiple Kubernetes clusters and is backed by Gloo Mesh Enterprise’s "Virtual Destination" capability, and Istio’s ServiceEntry and WorkloadEntry features. Gloo Gateway’s routes are now able to target any destinations across data centers and clouds.
Multi-cluster routing for Gloo Gateway is a core component of the Solo.io Omni Gateway philosophy, in which the Gloo portfolio addresses both North-South, South-North and East-West traffic routing capabilities using a single, open, API.
ARM Images
In this latest release, Gloo Gateway now provides ‘multiple-architecture’ (multi-arch) images to support customers running on ARM64 infrastructure. This feature now enables customers to run Gloo Gateway in any ARM-based environment. It has become an increasingly popular request for enhancement as Gloo Gateway users looked to optimizing their compute infrastructure on ARM.
AWS Lambda
In the 1.18 release we updated the support for AWS Lambda to align with the latest updates in AWS APIGateway functionality, as well as the AWS Lambda SDKs. Gloo Gateway can act as a "drop in" replacement for AWS API Gateway for exposing Lambda's while at the same time adding more advanced routing capabilities against lower costs.
But Wait! There’s more!
In Gloo Gateway 1.18 we’ve also added support for JWT policies at the route level, offering users a more complete support option for OIDC with a feature known as front channel logout.
You can check out all the details of this release in our release notes or read the latest updated reference documentation containing all the updated details.
New to Gloo Gateway? Why not try the open source version of Gloo Gateway here.
