Add Express Gateway to the project

[XVincentX]

Hey — you probably remember me, we met at Node Summit and I've been speaking with Chris about featuring Express Gateway as the API Gateway for the project.

This is just a start — I'd love to iterate more with you on this.

Cheers!

[CLAassistant]

All committers have signed the CLA.

[XVincentX]

//cc @seabaylea @BethGriggs

[XVincentX]

Latest master merged.

[seabaylea]

Hi @XVincentX. Sorry - I completely missed that you'd raised this PR.

It looks like you've raised a PR to provide an official Helm chart, which is fantastic! Does the deployed gateway support liveness, open tracing and prometheus etc? Are you doing anything to provide annotation based registration of APIs into the gateway?

[XVincentX]

Hey @seabaylea — to answer your questions:

1. Yeah, we have an official PR for Helm Charts as well as one to make EG part of the official Docker image program. Unfortunately the review times seem to be really high, but I am confident we're almost near the finish line.

2. The deployed gateway support basic living and readiness probes — although they're not in the way I want. I could employ your library, but I haven't been able to inspect their source code yet (yeah, I do that for almost all the dependencies)

3. We do, in a certain way — Express Gateway has a plugin architecture so you can basically plug in anything you want, including any Express Middleware of course. Regarding Prometheus, I also wrote an article about that.

4. To be precise, we do have a plan to write an Ingress Controller for Express Gateway, but as you can see we do have some missing pieces. We'll get there.

I hope that answer your questions. We're not there yet to be completely cloud native but I'm quite sure EG's presence there would drive the roadmap significantly towards that direction.

Have a good one!

[XVincentX]

We have an official Helm chart now.

[XVincentX]

@seabaylea

Is there any update on this?

[gdams]

ping @seabaylea

[XVincentX]

It seems like the website has been changing since my PR @gdams

I want to make sure the maintainers are going to accept the PR before rebasing.

[XVincentX]

@gdams Any update on this?