The Spring Cloud Gateway (SCG) open-source project has been extended and offered commercially for the Kubernetes platform. This new offering lets you automate the deployment of an API gateway service by applying YAML configuration objects to a Kubernetes cluster. You can also update the routes of API gateways in Kubernetes by applying YAML configuration to the cluster.

Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes supports routing to services that are written in any language, as long as they expose HTTP endpoints. A Kubernetes operator is offered to handle creating and configuring a gateway instance by…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 11 (SR11) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. Hoxton.SR11 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Add LoadBalancerRequestTransformer for WebClient-backed load-balancing

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Adds support for evicting connections
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One of the imperative architectural concerns is to protect APIs and service endpoints from harmful effects, such as denial of service, cascading failure. or overuse of resources. Rate limiting is a technique to control the rate by which an API or a service is consumed. In a distributed system, no better option exists than to centralize configuring and managing the rate at which consumers can interact with APIs. Only those requests within a defined rate would make it to the API. Any more would raise an HTTP “Many requests” error.

Spring Cloud Gateway (SCG) is a simple and lightweight component…