zalando/skipper

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An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress

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Merged PRs (30d): 46

Dominant language: Go
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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244 open issues indexed

Doc: make sure that OPA is fine at startup Open

documentation

zalando/skipper#4236 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
rfcPath Open

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zalando/skipper#4184 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Support for HTTP QUERY Method (RFC10008) Open

enhancement

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zalando/skipper#4113 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2026
FlakyTest TestMTLS_ProxyToBackend Open

flakytest

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zalando/skipper#4096 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
FlakyTest TestRedisContainer Open

flakytest

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zalando/skipper#4095 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
explore NewClientConn from go stdlib Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/skipper#4085 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Flaky test cache filter Open

flakytest

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zalando/skipper#4075 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2026
kubernetes data client support for cluster trust bundles Open

enhancement kubernetes

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zalando/skipper#4074 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2026
RouteGroup: support named routes for meaningful metric labels Open

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zalando/skipper#4010 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
OPA add noleak test to filter directories Open

test

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zalando/skipper#4008 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2026
Adaptive hedge request filter Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

zalando/skipper#3943 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2026
embrace OTel - drop OpenTracing Open

breaking change breaks for end users breaks for library users tracing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

zalando/skipper#3939 · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Pass application label from kubernetes routing object to metric/span/log via annotate filter Open

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zalando/skipper#3928 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2026
A filter or fadeIn extension to shadow traffic first before directing live traffic to new pods Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/skipper#3863 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Separate connection pool to backends Open

zalando/skipper#3844 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 27, 2026
load shedding: Physics-based concurrency control Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

zalando/skipper#3828 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 15, 2026
TestBackendTimeoutWithSlowBodyWriterShadow flakytest Open

flakytest

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zalando/skipper#3818 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2026
OpenSSF silver badge Open

epic security

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zalando/skipper#3817 · Opened Jan 6, 2026
skipper documented threat model - OpenSSF silver Open

security

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zalando/skipper#3816 · Opened Jan 6, 2026
Add support for cert-manager Open

enhancement

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zalando/skipper#3812 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Online meetup Open

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zalando/skipper#3797 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 18, 2025
OPA startup failure can slow down routing table creation Open

bug open-policy-agent

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zalando/skipper#3784 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 11, 2025
TestFadeInLoadBetweenOldAndNewEps flakytest Open

flakytest

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zalando/skipper#3772 · Opened Dec 3, 2025
Feature request: Using IPinfo Lite DB Open

enhancement help wanted WAF

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/skipper#3767 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2025
Optimize route lookup Open

optimization

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/skipper#3713 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
OpenTelemetry: support AWS X-Ray Propagator Open

enhancement tracing

zalando/skipper#3663 · 14 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 14, 2025
Enable Advanced Validation in Cluster Client Open

enhancement kubernetes

zalando/skipper#3659 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Add positive validation testdata with valid RouteGroups Open

kubernetes test

zalando/skipper#3651 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Get rid of "ServiceBackend" in Kubernetes Routegroups Open

refactor

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zalando/skipper#3649 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Cleanup cached predicates Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/skipper#3609 · Opened Sep 1, 2025
New metric for total time spent processing a request and response in skipper Open

monitoring

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/skipper#3597 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2025
OPA Filters: New bundle activation affects the policy decisions Open

bug

zalando/skipper#3554 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 9, 2025
RFC: deprecation of codahale metrics Open

accepted breaking change

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/skipper#3530 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 12, 2025
Improve memory utilization of random source for loadbalancing algorithms Open

optimization

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

zalando/skipper#3510 · 1 comment · Opened May 22, 2025
OPA: extend custom control loop to decision log and status plugins Open

open-policy-agent

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zalando/skipper#3492 · Opened May 7, 2025
Refactor OIDC and OAuth Grant cookie handling Open

enhancement oauth-grant oidc

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/skipper#3455 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 24, 2025
Support for filter on webhook json response body Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/skipper#3444 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2025
`redirectTo` filter is inconsistent. Open

documentation help wanted

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zalando/skipper#3430 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2025
Provide official Skipper Helm repository and make it discoverable on artifact.io Open

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zalando/skipper#3355 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2024
forward-auth and webhook filter - always 200 Open

help wanted

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zalando/skipper#3329 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2024
OPA: Enable evaluation trace to spans Open

open-policy-agent tracing

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zalando/skipper#3305 · Opened Nov 8, 2024
wildcard hostnames produce invalid regex for `Host` predicate Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/skipper#3297 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2024
Add a filter that normalizes url paths by removing trailing slashes and empty path segments Open

enhancement

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zalando/skipper#3236 · Opened Sep 19, 2024
OIDC Logout filter Open

help wanted

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zalando/skipper#3235 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Add header to override the base URI of the oauthgrant redirect_uri parameter Open

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zalando/skipper#3229 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2024
OAuthgrant filter does not work with GET /userinfo as the tokeninfo URL Open

documentation

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zalando/skipper#3226 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2024
Cookies set by oauthGrant filter are occasionally too big Open

enhancement oauth-grant

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zalando/skipper#3211 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2024
Align skipper OPA config for max request body size with OPA config Open

zalando/skipper#3177 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Handle `302 Found` Redirects when using the webhook filter Open

help wanted

zalando/skipper#3130 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 27, 2024
OPA: Reduce impact of filter creation time on routes Open

open-policy-agent

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zalando/skipper#3119 · Opened Jun 20, 2024

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