Ingress controller allows single ip-port to access all services running in k8s through ingress rules. The ingress controller service is set to load balancer so it is accessible from public internet. An api gateway is used for application routing, rate limiting, security, request and response handling and other application related tasks. Say, you have a … Read more
Websockets A websocket connection opened by a client must eventually connect to a websocket server. API Gateway The job of the API gateway is to accept an incoming websocket connection from a client and correctly route it to a websocket server. An API gateway will redirect ALL data sent from a client websocket to the … Read more
API Gateway and Load Balancer are 2 different things. Load Balancer -> Its a software which works at protocol or socket level (eg. tcp, http, or port 3306 etc.) Its job is to balance the incoming traffic by distributing it to the destinations with various logics (eg. Round robin). I doesn’t offer features such as … Read more
Definition 1: The direction of action Upstream: receiving requests from / sending responses to A service upstream is calling me. Downstream: making requests to / receiving responses from I am calling a service downstream. Definition 2: The direction of dependency Upstream: making requests to / receiving responses from I am calling a service upstream. Downstream: … Read more