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Tyk Gateway is the cloud-native, open source, enterprise-ready API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Built from the ground up, as the fastest API Gateway on the planet since 2014.

Tyk Gateway is provided ‘Batteries-included’, with no feature lockout. Enabling your organization to rate limit, auth, gather analytics, apply microservice patterns and more with ease.

There are three different ways you can try Tyk:

We’ll install Tyk, add auth, analytics, quotas and rate limiting to your API in under 5 minutes.

We recommend Tyk Gateway Docker as the quickest way to get started now. Later, you can move to one of our other supported distributions if you prefer.

git clone https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-gateway-docker

cd tyk-gateway-docker

docker-compose up

You can run this in detach mode using the -d flag: docker-compose up -d

Congratulations, you’re done!

Your Tyk Gateway is now configured and ready to use. Confirm this by checking against the ‘hello’ endpoint:

curl localhost:8080/hello

Output:

{"status": "pass", "version": "v3.2.1", "description": "Tyk GW"}

Next, visit adding your first API to Tyk and follow the Open Source instructions.

Other Installations are available:

1. Docker
2. Kubernetes-Native
3. Kubernetes-Helm
4. Ansible
5. Red Hat
6. Ubuntu
7. CentOS
8. Compile Tyk from Source