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+---
+layout: integration
+name: AISIX AI Gateway
+description: Route Haystack model calls through the open-source AISIX AI Gateway using OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
+authors:
+    - name: Yilia Lin
+      socials:
+        github: Yilialinn
+repo: https://github.com/api7/aisix
+type: Custom Component
+report_issue: https://github.com/api7/aisix/issues
+version: Haystack 3.1
+toc: true
+---
+
+### **Table of Contents**
+
+- [Overview](#overview)
+- [Installation](#installation)
+- [Configure AISIX](#configure-aisix)
+- [Use AISIX in a RAG Pipeline](#use-aisix-in-a-rag-pipeline)
+- [Retry Ownership](#retry-ownership)
+- [License](#license)
+
+## Overview
+
+[AISIX AI Gateway](https://github.com/api7/aisix) is an Apache-2.0-licensed open-source AI gateway maintained by API7.ai. It is an independent project and is not an Apache Software Foundation project.
+
+AISIX exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints, so Haystack applications can use the built-in [`OpenAIChatGenerator`](https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/openaichatgenerator) without installing an AISIX-specific component. The Haystack application authenticates with a gateway caller key and selects a caller-facing model alias. AISIX keeps the upstream provider credential and resolves that alias to a direct model or routing group.
+
+The examples below were validated with Haystack 3.1.1 and AISIX 1.2.0.
+
+## Installation
+
+Install Haystack:
+
+```bash
+pip install haystack-ai==3.1.1
+```
+
+Deploy AISIX by following the [open-source AISIX gateway quickstart](https://docs.api7.ai/ai-gateway/getting-started/gateway-quickstart), using the `ghcr.io/api7/aisix:1.2.0` image tag to reproduce this example. No additional Haystack integration package is required.
+
+## Configure AISIX
+
+The following AISIX resources define two direct upstream models and expose them to Haystack as one `rag-model` [failover alias](https://docs.api7.ai/ai-gateway/routing/routing-and-failover). Replace the provider endpoint and model identifiers with values available in your environment.
+
+```yaml
+_format_version: "1"
+
+provider_keys:
+  - display_name: haystack-provider
+    provider: openai
+    adapter: openai
+    api_key: ${UPSTREAM_API_KEY}
+    api_base: ${UPSTREAM_API_BASE}
+
+models:
+  - display_name: rag-primary
+    provider: openai
+    model_name: ${UPSTREAM_PRIMARY_MODEL}
+    provider_key: haystack-provider
+  - display_name: rag-backup
+    provider: openai
+    model_name: ${UPSTREAM_BACKUP_MODEL}
+    provider_key: haystack-provider
+  - display_name: rag-model
+    routing:
+      strategy: failover
+      retries: 0
+      max_fallbacks: 1
+      targets:
+        - model: rag-primary
+        - model: rag-backup
+
+api_keys:
+  - display_name: haystack-caller
+    key_env: HAYSTACK_CALLER_KEY
+    allowed_models:
+      - rag-model
+```
+
+Set the referenced environment variables in the AISIX process and validate the resources before starting or reloading the gateway:
+
+```bash
+aisix validate --resources /etc/aisix/resources.yaml
+```
+
+The Haystack process needs only the gateway URL and caller key:
+
+```bash
+export AISIX_BASE_URL="http://localhost:3000"
+export HAYSTACK_CALLER_KEY="replace-with-a-gateway-caller-key"
+```
+
+Do not expose `UPSTREAM_API_KEY` to the Haystack application.
+
+## Use AISIX in a RAG Pipeline
+
+This example uses in-memory BM25 retrieval so that the only external request is the generation call through AISIX.
+
+```python
+import os
+
+from haystack import Document, Pipeline
+from haystack.components.builders import ChatPromptBuilder
+from haystack.components.generators.chat import OpenAIChatGenerator
+from haystack.components.retrievers.in_memory import InMemoryBM25Retriever
+from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage
+from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
+from haystack.utils import Secret
+
+document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()
+document_store.write_documents(
+    [
+        Document(
+            content=(
+                "If the checkout service returns HTTP 503, fail over to the "
+                "secondary region and page the on-call engineer."
+            )
+        ),
+        Document(
+            content=(
+                "If checkout latency exceeds two seconds, inspect the payment "
+                "provider dashboard before scaling the application."
+            )
+        ),
+    ]
+)
+
+template = [
+    ChatMessage.from_system(
+        "Answer only from the supplied runbook documents."
+    ),
+    ChatMessage.from_user(
+        "Runbook documents:\n"
+        "{% for document in documents %}"
+        "- {{ document.content }}\n"
+        "{% endfor %}"
+        "Question: {{ question }}"
+    ),
+]
+
+pipeline = Pipeline()
+pipeline.add_component(
+    "retriever",
+    InMemoryBM25Retriever(document_store=document_store, top_k=1),
+)
+pipeline.add_component(
+    "prompt_builder",
+    ChatPromptBuilder(
+        template=template,
+        required_variables={"documents", "question"},
+    ),
+)
+pipeline.add_component(
+    "llm",
+    OpenAIChatGenerator(
+        api_key=Secret.from_env_var("HAYSTACK_CALLER_KEY"),
+        model="rag-model",
+        api_base_url=f"{os.environ['AISIX_BASE_URL'].rstrip('/')}/v1",
+        max_retries=0,
+        generation_kwargs={"temperature": 0},
+    ),
+)
+
+pipeline.connect("retriever.documents", "prompt_builder.documents")
+pipeline.connect("prompt_builder.prompt", "llm.messages")
+
+question = "What should we do when checkout returns HTTP 503?"
+result = pipeline.run(
+    {
+        "retriever": {"query": question},
+        "prompt_builder": {"question": question},
+    }
+)
+
+print(result["llm"]["replies"][0].text)
+```
+
+A response grounded in the retrieved runbook should instruct the operator to fail over to the secondary region and page the on-call engineer.
+
+## Retry Ownership
+
+The example sets `max_retries=0` on `OpenAIChatGenerator` because the displayed AISIX routing model owns failover. This makes one Haystack generation call correspond to one gateway request while AISIX tries the configured targets within that request.
+
+You can keep client-side retries for a different failure policy, but size the Haystack/OpenAI client retry budget and the AISIX retry/failover budget together. Otherwise, one application-level call can create more upstream attempts than expected.
+
+## License
+
+AISIX is distributed under the [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/api7/aisix/blob/main/LICENSE).