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Chapter 1. Red Hat Connectivity Link overview
Red Hat Connectivity Link is a modular and flexible solution for application connectivity, policy management, and API management in multicloud and hybrid cloud environments. You can use Connectivity Link to secure, protect, connect, and observe your APIs, applications, and infrastructure.
Connectivity Link is based on the Kuadrant community project, and is targeted at the specific user roles of platform engineer, application developer, and business user.
1.1. Red Hat Connectivity Link architecture
The following diagram shows a high-level overview of the Connectivity Link architecture and its main features and technologies:
Figure 1.1. Connectivity Link architecture overview

Connectivity Link provides a control plane for configuring and deploying ingress Gateways based on the Kubernetes Gateway API standard. This control plane provides Kubernetes-native APIs for platform engineers to configure Gateways with TLS policies for certificate management, authentication and authorization policies, rate limiting policies, along with DNS policies for multicluster load balancing, health checks, and remediation.
Connectivity Link also provides data plane policies for application developers to secure and protect applications and APIs with authentication, authorization, and rate limiting. In addition, Connectivity Link provides templates for observability dashboards, metrics, tracing, and alerts for all user roles.
Connectivity Link supports OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0 as the Gateway API provider, which is based on the Istio community project.