MCP Server Hosting:

Higress hosts MCP Servers through its plugin mechanism, enabling AI Agents to easily call various tools and services. With the openapi-to-mcp tool, you can quickly convert OpenAPI specifications into remote MCP servers.

Key benefits of hosting MCP Servers with Higress:

• Unified authentication and authorization mechanisms

• Fine-grained rate limiting to prevent abuse

• Comprehensive audit logs for all tool calls

• Rich observability for monitoring performance

• Simplified deployment through Higress’s plugin mechanism

• Dynamic updates without disruption or connection drops

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AI Gateway:

Higress connects to all LLM model providers using a unified protocol, with AI observability, multi-model load balancing, token rate limiting, and caching capabilities:

Kubernetes ingress controller:

Higress can function as a feature-rich ingress controller, which is compatible with many annotations of K8s’ nginx ingress controller.

Gateway API support is coming soon and will support smooth migration from Ingress API to Gateway API.

Microservice gateway:

Higress can function as a microservice gateway, which can discovery microservices from various service registries, such as Nacos, ZooKeeper, Consul, Eureka, etc.

It deeply integrates with Dubbo, Nacos, Sentinel and other microservice technology stacks.

Security gateway:

Higress can be used as a security gateway, supporting WAF and various authentication strategies, such as key-auth, hmac-auth, jwt-auth, basic-auth, oidc, etc.

Production Grade

Born from Alibaba’s internal product with over 2 years of production validation, supporting large-scale scenarios with hundreds of thousands of requests per second.

Completely eliminates traffic jitter caused by Nginx reload, configuration changes take effect in milliseconds and are transparent to business. Especially friendly to long-connection scenarios such as AI businesses.

Streaming Processing

Supports true complete streaming processing of request/response bodies, Wasm plugins can easily customize the handling of streaming protocols such as SSE (Server-Sent Events).

In high-bandwidth scenarios such as AI businesses, it can significantly reduce memory overhead.

Easy to Extend

Provides a rich official plugin library covering AI, traffic management, security protection and other common functions, meeting more than 90% of business scenario requirements.

Focuses on Wasm plugin extensions, ensuring memory safety through sandbox isolation, supporting multiple programming languages, allowing plugin versions to be upgraded independently, and achieving traffic-lossless hot updates of gateway logic.

Secure and Easy to Use

Based on Ingress API and Gateway API standards, provides out-of-the-box UI console, WAF protection plugin, IP/Cookie CC protection plugin ready to use.

Supports connecting to Let’s Encrypt for automatic issuance and renewal of free certificates, and can be deployed outside of K8s, started with a single Docker command, convenient for individual developers to use.