Flex Gateway
Secure and manage AI at enterprise scale.
Secure, monitor, and control every interaction between AI agents and your systems. Protect all your APIs and AI services with a fast gateway that works anywhere your APIs run.
Keep APIs and AI agents secure and compliant.
Deploy a high-speed gateway that manages and secures APIs and AI agents wherever they run — in your data center, in the cloud, or in containers. Anypoint Flex Gateway works with Agent Fabric for AI control at scale and integrates with your existing development workflows for fast delivery.
Protect APIs across any environment with enterprise-grade security policies and zero-trust protection built-in.
Safeguard AI agent communications with specialized security policies for Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent endpoints.
Manage and secure any API with unified governance, regardless of where it's built or hosted. Get consistent policies and monitoring across your entire API ecosystem.
Manage agents anywhere with flexible architecture.
Secure Agent Fabric across all platforms while delivering high performance for microservices, distributed systems, and containerized environments.
Control your entire Agent Fabric across any service, language, or cloud platform with consistent enterprise security everywhere. Apply policies to every agent interaction to keep performance high while staying secure and compliant.
Manage services across any architecture with a gateway that deploys anywhere, including cloud-native and containerized environments. Reduce response times and costs with high performance on a lightweight footprint.
Adapt to any system and get running fast.
Handle any system architecture with a lightweight, high-performance gateway that deploys quickly using guided setup for your preferred environment.
Deploy to virtually any target using web interface or declarative configuration files familiar to developers everywhere and integrate deployment automation with CI/CD environments.
Choose fully-managed or self-managed deployment with guided setup for Linux, containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and IBM Power. Deploy gateways closer to your applications and AI agents for better protection.
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Anypoint Flex Gateway Frequently Asked Questions
Anypoint Flex Gateway is MuleSoft's ultra-fast gateway designed to manage and secure APIs running anywhere. It can manage any service — no matter the size, language or cloud — while providing consistent enterprise security and manageability across all environments. Think of it as a high-performance traffic controller that sits between your APIs and users, handling security, monitoring, and policy enforcement while working across any architecture from microservices to monoliths.
Flex Gateway implements AI with built-in safeguards and can configure a robust set of authentication, security, quality of service, and traffic management policies with zero trust implemented by default. There are several out-of-the-box policies for compliance, quality of service, security, and troubleshooting that are commonly used with APIs. Once you apply a policy through API Manager, Flex Gateway instantly applies the policy to the API with zero downtime or interruptions. This means you get enterprise-grade security without disrupting your running services.
You can deploy and run Flex Gateway as a Linux service, a Docker container, or as a Kubernetes ingress controller. It can be deployed anywhere, including cloud-native and containerized environments and you can configure the gateway in one of two ways: connected mode by using the Anypoint Platform web user interface, or locally to manage APIs in private environments. The flexibility means you can use it whether you're running on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.
Yes, absolutely. Flex Gateway can manage any service across any architecture — microservices to monolith — and works no matter the size, language or cloud. Anypoint Flex Gateway can be deployed to manage APIs regardless of architectural patterns or type of environment. This means it doesn't matter if your APIs were built with MuleSoft, Java, Python, Node.js, or any other technology - Flex Gateway can secure and manage them all from a single control plane.
Flex Gateway reduces application and AI agent response times and costs with high performance on a small footprint. The gateway is built to deliver the performance required for the most demanding applications while providing enterprise-grade security and management. Its lightweight design means it can handle high-traffic loads without consuming excessive resources, and you can scale it horizontally by deploying multiple instances across different environments as your traffic grows.