Ocelot/README.md
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Ocelot

Ocelot is a .NET Api Gateway. This project is aimed at people using .NET running a micro services / service orientated architecture that need a unified point of entry into their system. However it will worth with anything that speaks HTTP and run on any platform that asp.net core supports.

In particular I want easy integration with IdentityServer reference and bearer tokens.

We have been unable to find this in my current workplace without having to write our own Javascript middlewares to handle the IdentityServer reference tokens. We would rather use the IdentityServer code that already exists to do this.

Ocelot is a bunch of middlewares in a specific order.

Ocelot manipulates the HttpRequest object into a state specified by its configuration until it reaches a request builder middleware where it creates a HttpRequestMessage object which is used to make a request to a downstream service. The middleware that makes the request is the last thing in the Ocelot pipeline. It does not call the next middleware. The response from the downstream service is retrieved as the requests goes back up the Ocelot pipeline. There is a piece of middleware that maps the HttpResponseMessage onto the HttpResponse object and that is returned to the client. That is basically it with a bunch of other features!

Features

A quick list of Ocelot's capabilities for more information see the documentation.

  • Routing
  • Request Aggregation
  • Service Discovery with Consul
  • Service Fabric
  • Authentication
  • Authorisation
  • Rate Limiting
  • Caching
  • Retry policies / QoS
  • Load Balancing
  • Logging / Tracing / Correlation
  • Headers / Query String / Claims Transformation
  • Custom Middleware / Delegating Handlers
  • Configuration / Administration REST API

How to install

Ocelot is designed to work with ASP.NET core only and is currently built to netcoreapp2.0 this documentation may prove helpful when working out if Ocelot would be suitable for you.

Install Ocelot and it's dependencies using NuGet.

Install-Package Ocelot

All versions can be found here

Documentation

Please click here for the Ocleot documentation. This includes lots of information and will be helpful if you want to understand the features Ocelot currently offers.

Coming up

You can see what we are working on here.

Contributing

We love to receive contributions from the community so please keep them coming :)

Pull requests, issues and commentary welcome!

Please complete the relavent template for issues and PRs. Sometimes it's worth getting in touch with us to discuss changes before doing any work incase this is something we are already doing or it might not make sense. We can also give advice on the easiest way to do things :)

Finally we mark all existing issues as help wanted, small, medium and large effort. If you want to contriute for the first time I suggest looking at a help wanted & small effort issue :)

Things that are currently annoying me

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