This version is still in development and is not considered stable yet. For the latest stable version, please use Spring Cloud Gateway 4.3.2!

Configuration

Configuration for Spring Cloud Gateway is driven by a collection of RouteDefinitionLocator instances. The following listing shows the definition of the RouteDefinitionLocator interface:

RouteDefinitionLocator.java

public interface RouteDefinitionLocator {
	Flux<RouteDefinition> getRouteDefinitions();
}

By default, a PropertiesRouteDefinitionLocator loads properties by using Spring Boot’s @ConfigurationProperties mechanism.

The earlier configuration examples all use a shortcut notation that uses positional arguments rather than named ones. The following two examples are equivalent:

application.yml

spring:
  cloud:
    gateway:
      routes:
      - id: setstatus_route
        uri: https://example.org
        filters:
        - name: SetStatus
          args:
            status: 401
      - id: setstatusshortcut_route
        uri: https://example.org
        filters:
        - SetStatus=401

For some usages of the gateway, properties are adequate, but some production use cases benefit from loading configuration from an external source, such as a database. Future milestone versions will have RouteDefinitionLocator implementations based off of Spring Data Repositories, such as Redis, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

RouteDefinition Metrics

To enable RouteDefinition metrics, add spring-boot-starter-actuator as a project dependency. Then, by default, the metrics will be available as long as the property spring.cloud.gateway.metrics.enabled is set to true. A gauge metric named spring.cloud.gateway.routes.count will be added, whose value is the number of RouteDefinitions. This metric will be available from /actuator/metrics/spring.cloud.gateway.routes.count.