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Solo.io is donating its open source API Gateway, Gloo Gateway, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to further its mission of building a complete omni-gateway connectivity solution.

Supporting its vision of building an omni-directional gateway, Solo.io is bringing together leading open source technologies in the cloud-native ecosystem to support security, observability, and resiliency for API traffic spanning ingress, egress, and east-west communication. The donation of the open-source Gloo Gateway project to the CNCF, the general availability of Istio’s Ambient mode with production-ready support from Gloo Mesh, the launch of the community website Ambientmesh.io, and the introduction of advanced security guardrails for Large Language Model (LLM) usage with Gloo AI Gateway together represent a new open-source frontier for cloud-native connectivity.

“The introduction of an omni-gateway connectivity solution marks a new era in API management,” said Idit Levine, CEO and founder of Solo.io. “As organizations accelerate their adoption of cloud native architectures and practices, they will look to build on best-of-breed open source standards and technologies for API connectivity to secure, control, and scale their cloud adoption. To take the first step in building this truly omni-directional connectivity solution, we’re excited to donate our market-leading open source API gateway, Gloo Gateway, to the CNCF.”

The donation provides the community with access to a feature-rich modern API gateway purpose-built for organizations investing and scaling their cloud native environments.

Istio’s ambient mode, the sidecarless data plane architecture for Istio, has reached general availability status and delivers a production-ready Ambient mesh for customers looking to enable seamless zero trust security, comprehensive observability, and advanced traffic management features for cloud-native architectures.

As a co-creator and co-founder with Google of both Istio and Ambient mesh, Solo.io helps customers and the community realize the full benefits of an enterprise-grade sidecarless service mesh with the introduction of Ambientmesh.io, a free community-orientated website designed to help users fast-track the adoption of Ambient mesh and access enterprise production-ready features and support for Ambient mesh in Gloo Mesh.

Solo.io has introduced new advanced AI guardrail capabilities to Gloo AI Gateway, supporting the integration of custom Small Language Models for semantic safety and security guardrails. This new semantic guardrails capability complements existing advanced AI gateway capabilities such as semantic caching, retrieval-augmented generation, token-weighted rate limiting, and fine-grained LLM consumption tracking available in Gloo AI Gateway. This approach provides users with a ‘drop-in approach’ to comprehensive security, observability, and governance across their GenAI and LLM integration connectivity use cases.