GRPCRoute (standard)¶
Purpose¶
GRPCRoute provides gRPC-specific routing capabilities within the Kubernetes Gateway API. It allows you to:
- Route gRPC traffic based on service names, method names, and header matching
- Load balance gRPC calls across multiple backend services with protocol awareness
- Handle streaming RPCs for both unary and streaming gRPC communication patterns
- Apply gRPC-specific filters for request/response transformation and middleware integration
- Support service mesh integration with advanced gRPC features like retries and circuit breaking
- Enable microservices communication with type-safe, high-performance RPC calls
- Manage API versioning through service and method-level routing rules
GRPCRoute operates at the application layer with deep understanding of gRPC protocols, providing sophisticated routing for modern microservices architectures. It's ideal for internal service-to-service communication, API gateways serving gRPC clients, and hybrid environments mixing HTTP and gRPC traffic in your Kubernetes cluster.
Reference¶
- Info
https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/guides/grpc-routing/ https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/api-types/grpcroute/
- Spec