plecto-server 0.9.0

Plecto's fast path: an L7 reverse proxy / API gateway data plane (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS, routing, load balancing).
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Plecto Proxy

A self-hostable, programmable L7 reverse proxy & API gateway — in Rust, extended with WebAssembly.

Plecto Proxy pairs two complementary halves through a typed WIT contract:

  • a fast path in native Rust — connection handling, TLS termination, HTTP/1.1·2·3, routing, load balancing, and upstream management;
  • an extension plane of WebAssembly Component Model filters — the per-request decisions (auth, header/body rewriting, rate limiting, WAF, policy) written in any language, plugged in over the plecto:filter contract, hot-swapped with zero downtime.

The speed-critical path stays native Rust. Filter logic runs as a sandboxed WASM component that can touch only the capabilities the host explicitly lends it.

Status: early development. APIs and the plecto:filter contract may still change between releases.

Install

cargo install plecto

This installs the plecto binary — the gateway itself (plecto <manifest.toml> [listen-addr]) plus the operator CLI: new-filter and dev to author a filter, conformance → package → validate --resolve to gate, sign, and pre-flight it, and healthz / schema / --version for operations.

A cargo install build carries no release provenance. For a deployment, prefer the signed container image or release binary — see docs/install.md.

This workspace

This crate is one member of the Plecto Proxy Cargo workspace:

  • plecto — the plecto binary and operator CLI. cargo install plecto is the primary entry point.
  • plecto-host — the wasmtime embedding host that loads, sandboxes, and runs plecto:filter WASM components; also home of the versioned conformance battery (run_conformance / run_conformance_with, five-way per-case verdicts).
  • plecto-control — the control plane: declarative manifest, OCI artifact loading, filter-chain dispatch, atomic hot reload.
  • plecto-server — the fast path data plane library (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS, routing, load balancing).

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License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.