Show HN: GONK – Lightweight Edge-Native API Gateway in Go

Category: infrastructure

Tags: api-gateway, edge-computing, iot

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

GONK is a lightweight edge-native API gateway written in Go, designed for industrial, IoT, robotics, and air-gapped environments. It offers security features like mTLS, JWT, RBAC, and load balancing with health checks, all in a single binary with YAML configuration. Its focus on constrained and disconnected networks where traditional cloud gateways cannot run makes it a compelling and practical tool for edge deployments.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/JustVugg/gonk · Go · Apache-2.0 · 28 stars

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