KrakenD Framework: It is now an open project of the Linux Foundation!
A few days ago, on May 11, the following news was released: The organization and developers of "KrakenD" along with the Linux Foundation, announce that the "KrakenD Framework", its main work force, has been donated to the Linux Foundation and from now on, he will be known as the «Project Lura».
Therefore, today we will delve a little into the "KrakenD Framework" called now «Project Lura».
El "KrakenD Framework" it's not the only one Open Source API Gateway and high performance with middleware (Backend For Frontend) existing on the market. There are also other open source, free or paid ones, such as Kong, Thick y WSO2 API Manager. There are also proprietary (commercial) solutions, such as: Microsoft Azure y Dreamfactory.
However, it is considered one of the best of its kind today. Because, among many highlights, it is one of the fastest working with Microservice Aggregation (BFF). And also with service connectivity (pub / sub, queues, gRPC, among others) designed for large-scale uses.
KrakenD Framework: Open Source API Gateway
What is KrakenD Framework?
According to Official website de "KrakenD", "KrakenD Framework" It is described as follows:
"KrakenD is a very fast API gateway, which comes with true linear scalability. Additionally, KrakenD is a high-performance, distributed, stateless API gateway that helps you effortlessly adopt microservices. KrakenD is more than a typical proxy that forwards clients to backend services, but a powerful engine that can transform, add or remove data from own or third-party services. KrakenD also implements the Backend for Frontend and Micro-frontends patterns to eliminate the need to deal with multiple REST services, isolating customers from the implementation details of microservices."
What is the Lura Project?
As we expressed at the beginning, now the "KrakenD Framework" is known as the «Project Lura». Since, in the Official blog of «KrakenD» the following was announced a few days ago (11/05/2021) noticia:
"Today, together with the Linux Foundation, we announced that the KrakenD Framework, our main engine, has been donated to the Linux Foundation and is now "Project Lura." Project Lura's mission is to provide a high-performance, extensible, simple, and stateless API gateway framework designed for cloud-native and on-prem configurations. Rather than solving a specific use case, Lura provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom API gateway systems like a Lego set." KrakenD framework becomes a Linux Foundation project
They also added the following in said announcement:
"Two well-known API gateway implementations of the Lura engine are the KrakenD Community and Enterprise editions. We will be adding Lura as a new engine in KrakenD 2.0 (stay tuned soon!). KrakenD API Gateway will continue without changes for its Community (FOSS) and Enterprise editions, and no action is required if you are using our assembled products." KrakenD framework becomes a Linux Foundation project
More useful information about the Lura Project
At official website of «KrakenD», all the current features From this project. OR download the latest versions available from it and access all the documentation necessary. And if necessary, your official website on GitHub. In which they also add the following information about the «Project Lura»:
"KrakenD is an API Gateway builder and proxy generator that sits between the client and all source servers, adding a new layer that removes all complexity from clients, providing only the information the UI needs. KrakenD acts as an aggregator of many sources on single endpoints and allows you to group, wrap, transform, and reduce responses. In addition, it supports a myriad of middleware and plugins that allow you to extend the functionality, such as adding Oauth authorization or security layers. KrakenD not only supports HTTP (S), but being a set of generic libraries it can build all kinds of API Gateways and proxies, including, for example, an RPC gateway."
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Framework KrakenD» and «Proyecto Lura», specifically about what they are and the news that it has become a Open Source Project sponsored by the Linux Foundation; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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