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Unleash Kong
Extend microservices with configurable Kong plugins.
IoT
Powering connectivity to IoT, mobile, and other devices.
Microservice APIs
Connect and orchestrate microservices through APIs.
Developers
Securely publish APIs to thousands of developers.
Used at scale by
The Microservice API Gateway
Quickly build API-centric applications. Leverage the latest microservice and container design patterns. And tie it all together with the Kong microservice API gateway.
Radically Extensible
Ready-to-deploy plugins add powerful functionality to your APIs and applications.
Blazingly Fast
Kong accelerates applications, achieving sub-millisecond latency for virtually all requests.
Open Source
Open and developer-friendly, tens of thousands have embraced the Kong microservice API gateway.
Platform Agnostic
Containers to clouds. Single instance to global clusters. Kong supports your setup.
Cloud Native
Achieve flexibility at scale, with microservices, containers, and orchestration.
RESTful Interface
Built on top of NGINX, Kong operates through a simple and easy-to-use RESTful API.
Driven by Developers, Adopted by Enterprises
Kong Community Edition
The blazingly fast open source microservice API gateway.
Kong Enterprise Edition
The microservice API platform for large organizations.
Orchestrate Common Functionality
Kong provides a flexible abstraction layer that securely manages communication between clients and microservices via APIs.
The Redundant Old Way
- Common functionality is duplicated across multiple services
- Systems tend to be monolithic and hard to maintain
- Difficult to expand without impacting other services
- Productivity is inefficient because of system constraints
The Kong Way
- Kong orchestrates common functionality
- Build efficient distributed architectures ready to scale
- Expand functionality from one place with a simple command
- Focus on your product and let Kong do the REST
Centralized or Decentralized Deployment
API Gateway Pattern
Deploy Kong in a centralized pattern where APIs consume Kong services for authentication, rate limiting and more at the gateway.
Sidecar Pattern
Deploy Kong in a decentralized “mesh” where microservices and APIs are tightly integrated with Kong services.
Platform Agnostic: On-Prem, Cloud or Hybrid
Containers to clouds. Single instance to global clusters. Kong supports your setup.
