Soul - Introduction to Soul API gateway

Introduction

Soul API gateway was designed and developed by the Dromara group. It referenced well-known API gateways like Kong, Spring Cloud Gateway. The latency passed by Soul is incredibly low as less than 2ms.
Soul offers an admin-dashboard, which provides utilities to handle traffic control, blocking requests, and routing rules.
There are plugins integrated with Soul like authentification, rate limiting, circuit-breaker, firewall, etc.

Installing Soul(2.2.1)

Environmental requirements:

• JDK 1.8+
• Maven 3.2.x
• Git
• MySQL(or using embedded H2)

1. clone from Github
   git clone https://github.com/dromara/soul
2. compile source code with maven
   mvn clean package install
   or skip tests and doc generation with
   mvn clean package install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Drat.skip=true -Dcheckstyle.skip=true
   If you get any trouble when compiling using OpenJDK, try running with Oracle JDK.

After compiling, launch SoulBootstrapApplication and SoulAdminBootstrap, these 2 apps will connect through WebSocket by default.


soul-admin will create a database named "soul" and fills init data to tables.

You can change the configuration synchronization way by edit the application.yml in the resources folder of the soul-bootstrap submodule.

By opening http://localhost:9095, after typing in the default username(admin) and password(123456), we can log in to the admin account.

We can manage plug-ins and get system info from the tabs on the left.