What are the option to API gateway with docker?
I was looking for something similar, including support for rate limiting, UI console, etc. It boils down to a few freemium tools like:
and a few open source ones:
I've decided on tyk since it has a nice UI console and solid docs. All of them were mentioned on Quora, which is nice when you want to go shopping :)
If you like getting your hands dirty, you could quite easily implement your own simplified API Gateway. I believe this approach perfectly fits into microservice paradigm - implement simple service with limited functionality that does only one thing, but does it well.
I've written a tutorial on this subject (implementing simple API Gateway for Dockerized microservices with Node.js). My example is about 100 lines of JavaScript code, it uses node-docker-monitor to listen to Docker events and http-proxy to handle HTTP requests from the clients.
https://memz.co/api-gateway-microservices-docker-node-js/
or alternative solution with SkyDNS and Nginx
Unless I'm mistaken (I'm a bit new to containers) - I think all of these solutions from Amazon AWS (with AWS API Gateway itself in front of any of them for public access) would also fall in the category of freemium solutions for running / orchestrating Docker Container(s) behind a public API Gateway:
Here are AWS blogs on using AWS API Gateway with them:
- Using Amazon API Gateway with microservices deployed on Amazon ECS
- API Gateway as an Ingress Controller for Amazon EKS
And depending on your requirements, either of these (also from Amazon AWS) should also meet requirements for users, accounts, permissions, authorization, etc:
By the way, I don't think any intermediary management / compute / server should be necessary for architecting with any of those (although compute from AWS EC2 and/or AWS Lambda could still be inserted for any purpose), as they are all AWS services [that manage their functionality] unto themselves.