Using Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes with Tanzu Application Platform

This topic tells you how to use Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes as an API gateway for workloads running on Tanzu Application Platform (commonly known as TAP).

Spring Cloud Gateway is a popular project library for creating an API Gateway that is built on top of the Spring ecosystem. The open source library is a foundational component of VMware Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes and Spring Cloud Gateway for VMware Tanzu Application Service commercial offerings with commercial-only capabilities and platform-integrated operator experiences. You can use the open source and commercial offerings as a reverse proxy with extra API Gateway functions to handle request and response to upstream application services.

Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes is included with Tanzu Application Platform v1.5 and later. You can migrate upstream applications that expose API routes on Spring Cloud Gateway from Tanzu Application Service and custom open source implementations to Tanzu Application Platform. For how to do so, see the VMware Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes documentation.