Kong: Plugin proposal: gRPC

Created on 28 Feb 2017 · 11Comments · Source: Kong/kong

Summary

Add support for gRPC to complement JSON REST, for higher-performance with lower overhead.

Reference: http://www.grpc.io/

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skunkwerk

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@xunchangguo I am sure they will. Latest OpenResty uses Nginx 1.13.6. So it is not that much behind. Kong will be updated to 1.13.6 tomorrow with 0.13 release. It will take some time, but eventually we get that.

bungle on 21 Mar 2018

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https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/413

sonicaghi on 28 Feb 2017

Closed as dup

p0pr0ck5 on 28 Apr 2017

413 is REST to RPC, Does kong have direct gRPC support? Intercepting a request and forward to backend, like a proxy.

devdinu on 8 Feb 2018

@dineshkumar-cse No. On the radar, but not available for now.

Tieske on 9 Feb 2018

Soonish it will come to Nginx (not sure about OpenResty though): https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap

bungle on 9 Feb 2018

gRPC whil Support with NGINX 1.13.10. https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-13-10-grpc/. Does kong or OpenResty will support ?

xunchangguo on 21 Mar 2018

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bungle on 21 Mar 2018

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Perhaps time to reopen?

Edit: doh, dupe. Sorry.

jbergstroem on 6 Apr 2018

gRPC is something I am very curious on as based on some initial readings it seems to be the next stepping stone for how to move data around within companies via web transactions in the most performant manner. I think it will take the market awhile to catch up(REST will be dominant for probably the next 5+ years) but if Kong gets a head start on this and we can get some decent auth plugins around gRPC with Kong too that will be incredible.

jeremyjpj0916 on 6 Apr 2018

This issue seems not to be duplicated, IMHO.
https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/413 is "REST support" for gRPC and this issue is "direct support" for gRPC.