A gRPC plugin uses the standard bundling mechanism that you use for the rest of the rich plugins. The essential difference with a standard rich plugin is that a rich plugin bundle contains the actual code, which will be executed by Tyk, while a gRPC plugin bundle contains just a custom middleware definition, and you handle the execution of your code, independently, e.g. a gRPC server, listening on port 8080.

Bundle

This is what a manifest could look like:

    {
      "file_list": [
      ],
      "custom_middleware": {
        "pre": [
          {
            "name": "MyPreMiddleware",
          }
        ],
        "post": [
          {
            "name": "MyPostMiddleware",
          }
        ],
        "auth_check": {
          "name": "MyAuthCheck"
        },
        "driver": "grpc"
      },
      "checksum": "",
      "signature": ""
    }

After saving this file as manifest.json, build it using tyk-cli:

  tyk-cli bundle build -output mybundle.zip -key mykey.pem

The gRPC server

A gRPC server must be implemented in the language of your choice, we have prepared different tutorials for some of them:

• Ruby
• C#/.NET