GraphQL for Monolith, Microservices, and Serverless

What is Sqoop?

Sqoop (formerly QLoo) is a GraphQL Server built on top of Gloo and the Envoy Proxy.

Sqoop leverages Gloo’s function registry and Envoy’s advanced HTTP routing features to provide a GraphQL frontend
for REST/gRPC applications and serverless functions. Sqoop routes requests to data sources via Envoy, leveraging
Envoy HTTP filters
for security, load balancing, and more.

Sqoop

Workflow with Sqoop

Register or Discovery API Endpoints and Serverless Functions with Gloo
Upload a GraphQL schema
Connect Functions to your Schema’s fields in a Sqoop ResolverMap

Features

Codeless GraphQL API: Instantly deploy a GraphQL server and connect it to your data sources with configuration,
zero code required.
Dynamic Load Balancing: Load balance traffic across multiple data sources.
Health Checks: Active and passive monitoring of your data sources.
OpenTracing: Monitor GraphQL requests using the well-supported OpenTracing standard.
Monitoring: Export HTTP metrics to Prometheus or Statsd.
Client SSL: Communicate with Data Sources using TLS encryption.
Declarative API: Sqoop features a declarative YAML-based API; store your configuration as code and commit it with your projects.
Scalability: Sqoop scales independently of your data sources and scales infinitely.
Performance: Sqoop leverages Envoy for its high network performance and low footprint.
Plugins: Sqoop leverage’s Gloo’s plugin ecosystem to enable extending the types
of data sources Sqoop can connect to.
JSON-to-gRPC transcoding: Connect GraphQL JSON clients to gRPC data sources.

Service Discovery

Kubernetes
OpenShift
HashiCorp Stack (Vault, Consul, Nomad)
Cloud Foundry

Function Discovery

AWS Lambda
Microsoft Azure Functions
Google Cloud Platform Functions
Fission
OpenFaaS
ProjectFn
Swagger/REST
gRPC

Documentation

Installation

Installing on Kubernetes: Installation guide for Kubernetes

Getting Started

Getting Started on Kubernetes: Getting started with Kubernetes

v1 API reference

Schemas: API Specification for proving your GraphQL Schemas to Sqoop
ResolverMaps: API Reference for ResolverMaps, which map your data sources to your Schemas

Blogs & Demos

Announcement Blog

Community

Join us on our slack channel: https://slack.solo.io/

Thanks

Sqoop would not be possible without the valuable open-source work of projects in the community. We would like to extend
a special thank-you to Envoy and gqlgen server library.