Higress is Alibaba's next-generation cloud-native gateway that integrates traffic gateway, microservice gateway, and security gateway capabilities. It deeply integrates with microservice technology stacks such as Dubbo, Nacos, and Sentinel, helping users significantly reduce gateway deployment and maintenance costs.

Introduction

Higress is built on Istio and Envoy, offering the following features:

High Performance: Built on Envoy, providing high-performance data plane capabilities
Extensibility: Support for Wasm and Lua script extensions
Multi-protocol: Support for HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2, gRPC, Dubbo, and other protocols
Service Discovery: Support for Kubernetes, Nacos, Consul, Eureka, and other service discovery mechanisms
Security Protection: Built-in WAF, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and other security protection capabilities

Usage

Accessing the Management Console

After installation, you can access the Higress management console at:

http://your-server-ip:8001/higress-console

Configuring the Gateway

Log in to the management console
Create routing rules
Configure service discovery
Set security policies

Port Information

8080: HTTP port for handling HTTP requests
8443: HTTPS port for handling HTTPS requests
8001: Management console port for accessing the Higress console

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Higress

Introduction

Usage

Accessing the Management Console

Configuring the Gateway

Port Information

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