During the last years we’ve worked hard to bring cloud native operations capabilities for your Camel workloads on Kubernetes. Camel K was the first historic initiative and it gave us the possibility to experiment several features that we’ve decided to move off into a brand new project: Camel Monitor Operator (formerly known as Camel Dashboard operator). Whilst Camel K will keep the focus and excel on the building and deploying part of a Camel application on the cloud, the goal of the new project is to focus on the monitoring part only.

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Recent Camel releases introduced several features that work well together for AI-powered integrations: the camel-openai component (4.17), the SimpleFunction interface, chain operator, and structured output with JSON Schema (4.18), and Gmail DataType Transformers (4.19). To show how these pieces fit, I built an email triage agent that classifies Gmail messages using an LLM, moves them to labels, and drafts smart replies. The whole thing runs with Camel JBang. No Maven project, no framework setup.

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Four years ago, I started writing an API Gateway. Not because I wanted to build a product — but because we needed more from the tools we had. I was working inside a government institution running a complex hybrid environment — services spread across on-premises data centers and cloud, strict security and compliance requirements, and a growing number of APIs that all needed to be managed, secured, and observed. We were using a well known API Gateway product, a capable and powerful platform, but for our use case, it was too heavy.

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