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#### What's the difference between Gateway API and an API Gateway?
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- An API Gateway is a general concept that describes anything that exposes
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- capabilities of a backend service, while providing extra capabilities for
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- traffic routing and manipulation , such as load balancing, request and response
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- transformation, and sometimes more advanced features like authentication and
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- authorization, rate limiting, and circuit breaking .
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+ An [ API gateway ] ( https://glossary.cncf.io/api-gateway/ ) is a tool that
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+ aggregates unique application APIs, making them all available in one place.
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+ It allows organizations to move key functions , such as authentication and
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+ authorization or limiting the number of requests between applications, to a
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+ centrally managed location. An API gateway functions as a common interface to (often external) API consumers .
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- Gateway API is an interface, or set of resources, that model service networking
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- in Kubernetes. One of the main resources is a ` Gateway ` , which declares the
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- Gateway type (or class) to instantiate and its configuration. As a Gateway
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- Provider , you can implement Gateway API to model Kubernetes service networking
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- in an expressive, extensible, and role-oriented way.
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+ Gateway API is an interface, defined as a set of Kubernetes resources, that
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+ models service networking in Kubernetes. One of the main resources is a ` Gateway ` ,
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+ which declares the Gateway type (or class) to instantiate and its configuration.
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+ As a Gateway provider , you can implement Gateway API to model Kubernetes service
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+ networking in an expressive, extensible, and role-oriented way.
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- Most Gateway API implementations are API Gateways to some extent, but not all
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- API Gateways are Gateway API implementations.
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+ Some API gateways can be programmed using the Gateway API.
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#### Is Gateway API a standard for API Management?
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No. API Management is a much broader concept than what Gateway API aims to be,
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or what an API Gateway is intended to provide. An API Gateway can be an
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essential part of an API Management solution. Gateway API can be seen as a way
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- to standardize on that aspect of API Management .
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+ to standardize provisioning of API Gateways .
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