foreword
In today's technology environment, the role of gateways is becoming increasingly critical. MSE-Higress is a next-generation gateway product following the open-source Ingress/Gateway API standard, with many attractive features. Here, I will comprehensively evaluate it according to the following three main themes.
1. MSE-Higress Product Experience Evaluation
Operation process:
1) Activate MSE-Higress
According to the documents provided, we can claim and activate the MSE-Higress gateway for free.
2) Configure the MSE-Higress gateway
According to the experimental operation, we need to configure the service list and route management.
3) Plug-ins for WAF protection
Entering the plug-in market of MSE-Higress, we can quickly add WAF protection function. MSE-Higress provides some built-in WAF plug-ins, and also supports the development of custom plug-ins. I chose a built-in WAF plugin and configured it accordingly according to the experimental needs. The plug-in has rich configuration options to meet different protection needs.
4) Test WAF protection function
To test WAF protection, I used some common web attack vectors such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), etc. MSE-Higress' WAF plugin successfully detected and blocked these attacks. I also tested the accuracy and performance of the WAF by tweaking the configuration parameters of the plugin. The results show that the WAF protection function of MSE-Higress performs well and can effectively defend against various web attacks.
Experiment experience:
product documentation
The operation documentation of MSE-Higress is quite rich, and the description is complete and accurate. However, some sections may require more examples and diagrams to aid understanding.
product capability
Whether it is gateway migration, access, management or security capability management, MSE-Higress has demonstrated excellent functions. The plugin marketplace also provides further flexibility for the business.
product console
The console display is friendly, the operation is smooth, and the prompt information is complete. Possible improvements include adding more customization options and help information.
Product Integration Experience
The integration experience with ACK and ECS is quite smooth, but further optimization and guidance may be required in some complex scenarios.
2. Evaluation of MSE-Higress application scenarios
traffic scheduling
MSE-Higress supports a variety of routing methods and network protocols, including single-service, multi-service, label routing, etc., with powerful and flexible functions.
Service Governance
It has rich traffic management capabilities and supports multiple service discovery methods and grayscale release capabilities. This provides powerful tools for the management and optimization of services.
plugin market
The plug-in market provides rich business logic support, such as authentication and authentication, security protection, etc., which enhances the functionality and scalability of the gateway.
3. Comparative evaluation of cloud-native gateways
Compared with other gateways such as Nginx, APISIX, etc., MSE-Higress is superior in terms of functionality, performance, and architecture. In particular, its high integration, easy-to-use, easy-to-expand and hot-update features make it unique in the market. However, more competitiveness may be needed in terms of price, and the availability of some advanced features can be further improved.
Summarize
As a product that combines traditional traffic gateways, microservice gateways, and security gateways, MSE-Higress has reduced resource overhead by 50% and has excellent performance. Its powerful features and flexible scalability make it a worthy gateway solution. Although there is still some small room for improvement, it is certainly a strong contender and in many ways surpasses other products on the market.