This talk shares how users can securely expose their gRPC services to external consumers using a Kubernetes-native API management gateway built on Envoy Proxy and the Kubernetes Gateway API specification. While gRPC offers major performance advantages for internal communication, exposing it at the edge introduces a unique set of challenges around security, routing, and protocol translation.
We will walk through how the gateway architecture solves these challenges in a production environment, allowing users to publish gRPC APIs externally with confidence. In addition to native gRPC routing, we will discuss how our platform enables users to layer critical Quality-of-Service (QoS) features like authentication, rate limiting, retries, and policy enforcement on top of their gRPC APIs for external consumption.
