Gateway policy enforcement and service metadata binding

A system for gateway policy enforcement, comprising:

• a hardware processor and memory;
• and
• software instructions stored in the memory and configured to execute on the hardware processor, which, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to:
• receive configuration data from a services registry;
• annotate, based on the configuration data, a plurality of policies with flags;
• and
• bind, using the annotations of the policies, a route to at least one of the annotated policies.

A non-transitory computer readable medium for gateway policy enforcement comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method, comprising:

• receiving configuration data from a services registry;
• annotating, based on the configuration data, a plurality of policies with flags;
• and
• binding, using the annotations of the policies, a route to at least one of the annotated policies.