Plugin proposal: gRPC

[skunkwerk]

Summary

Add support for gRPC to complement JSON REST, for higher-performance with lower overhead.

Reference: http://www.grpc.io/

[sonicaghi]

#413

[p0pr0ck5]

Closed as dup

[devdinu]

#413 is REST to RPC, Does kong have direct gRPC support? Intercepting a request and forward to backend, like a proxy.

[Tieske]

@Dineshkumar-cse No. On the radar, but not available for now.

[bungle]

Soonish it will come to Nginx (not sure about OpenResty though): https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap

[xunchangguo]

gRPC whil Support with NGINX 1.13.10. https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-13-10-grpc/. Does kong or OpenResty will support ?

[bungle]

@xunchangguo I am sure they will. Latest OpenResty uses Nginx 1.13.6. So it is not that much behind. Kong will be updated to 1.13.6 tomorrow with 0.13 release. It will take some time, but eventually we get that.

[jbergstroem]

Perhaps time to reopen?

Edit: doh, dupe. Sorry.

[jeremyjpj0916]

gRPC is something I am very curious on as based on some initial readings it seems to be the next stepping stone for how to move data around within companies via web transactions in the most performant manner. I think it will take the market awhile to catch up(REST will be dominant for probably the next 5+ years) but if Kong gets a head start on this and we can get some decent auth plugins around gRPC with Kong too that will be incredible.

[jyane]

This issue seems not to be duplicated, IMHO.
#413 is "REST support" for gRPC and this issue is "direct support" for gRPC.

[naturallight]

+1