{"type":"mcp_server","name":"higress","description":"Higress is a cloud-native AI gateway based on Istio and Envoy, offering extensibility with Wasm plugins and a user-friendly console. It provides high availability and load balancing capabilities for various services.","category":"Communication","language":"Go","stars":8751,"forks":592,"owner":"alibaba","github_url":"https://github.com/alibaba/higress","homepage":"https://higress.io","setup":"## Setup\n\nTo start Higress with Docker:\n\n```bash\n# Create a working directory\nmkdir higress; cd higress\n# Start higress, configuration files will be written to the working directory\ndocker run -d --rm --name higress-ai -v ${PWD}:/data \\\n        -p 8001:8001 -p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443  \\\n        higress-registry.cn-hangzhou.cr.aliyuncs.com/higress/all-in-one:latest\n```\n\nPort descriptions:\n\n- Port 8001: Higress UI console entry\n- Port 8080: Gateway HTTP protocol entry\n- Port 8443: Gateway HTTPS protocol entry\n\nFor other installation methods such as Helm deployment under K8s, please refer to the official [Quick Start documentation](https://higress.io/en-us/docs/user/quickstart).","tools":"## Available Tools\n\n1.  AI Gateway (Connects to LLM model providers, provides AI observability, multi-model load balancing/fallback, AI token rate limiting, and AI caching).\n2.  MCP Server Hosting (Enables AI Agents to call various tools and services with unified authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and observability).\n3.  Kubernetes ingress controller (Functions as a feature-rich ingress controller, compatible with K8s' nginx ingress controller annotations).\n4.  Microservice gateway (Discovers microservices from various service registries and integrates with Dubbo, Nacos, and Sentinel).\n5.  Security gateway (Supports WAF and various authentication strategies like key-auth, hmac-auth, jwt-auth, basic-auth, and oidc).","faq":null,"created_at":"2022-10-27T03:53:00+00:00","updated_at":"2025-03-28T16:26:05+00:00","source_url":"https://model-context-protocol.com/servers/ai-gateway-api-management-cloud-native","related_articles":[]}