The API gateway approach has a lot of the upsides you mention: 1. http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.

The API gateway approach has a lot of the upsides you mention: 1. http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html 2. https://getkong.org/ https://getkong.org/ (a few auth plugins) 3. https://github.com/auth0/nginx-jwt https://github.com/auth0/nginx-jwt / https://www.stavros.io/posts/writing-an-nginx-authentication-module-in-lua/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/writing-an-nginx-authentication...