confluentinc/confluent-gateway-for-cloud repository overview

⁠Confluent Cloud Gateway

This repository hosts the docker image for deploying and running Confluent Cloud Gateway.

Confluent Cloud Gateway is a Gateway Add-On product you could purchase for Confluent Cloud. It is a cloud-native Kafka proxy solution designed to simplify client connectivity, secure external partner access, and manage client switchovers.

Confluent Cloud Gateway helps you,

1. Enable future migrations of on-premise clients to Confluent Cloud without client changes.

2. Enable on-premise Disaster Recovery Switch from one unhealthy cluster to another healthy cluster without client changes and hence achieve significant reduction in RTO.

3. Enable Secure External Partner Access for a private cluster.

4. Enable Custom domains for your Kafka listeners.

⁠Getting started with Confluent Cloud Gateway

https://github.com/confluentinc/gateway-images/tree/master/examples⁠ Curated examples in GitHub that you can run locally to set up CPC Gateway with CP Server and enable all the above set of features.

⁠License

Usage of this image is subject to the license terms of the software contained within. Please refer to Confluent's Docker images documentation reference⁠ for further information. The software to extend and build the custom Docker images is available under the Apache 2.0 License.