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"Gateway Mode" in Kuma and Kong Mesh

Kuma Service Mesh Gateway Mode
EngineeringJune 3, 2021

One of the most common questions I get asked is around the relationship between Kong Gateway and Kuma or Kong Mesh . The linking between these two sets of products is a huge part of the unique “magic” Kong brings to the connectivity space. In this blog post and the video below, we’re going…

Cody De Arkland

Automating Your Developer Pipeline With APIOps (DevOps + GitOps)

Automate Developer Pipeline with Kong Konnect APIOps
EngineeringJune 1, 2021

Want to learn more about the nuts and bolts of APIOps? Download our eBook, Unlocking the Full Potential of your APIs with APIOps , and learn about the stages of APIOps, get an understanding of the technical assets required, and explore the tooling needed to transform API development and management.…

Ross McDonald

Applying Authorization Code Flow With Kong and Okta

Kong and Okta Authorization Code Flow
EngineeringMay 27, 2021

In our second Kong and Okta tutorial, we'll go through the authorization code flow applied to user authentication processes. This series will show you how to implement service authentication and authorization for Kong Konnect and Okta using the OpenID Connect ( OIDC ) plugin. Parts 1, 3 and 4…

Claudio Acquaviva

Building a Kong Gateway Plugin with JavaScript

Kong Gateway JavaScript Plugin
EngineeringMay 26, 2021

We recently sat down to discuss the language for the next Kong Gateway Plugin Development Kit (PDK). Given the number of JavaScript developers in the world and the variety of libraries and debugging tools available, there was only one logical choice. I'm excited to share that with the Kong Gateway…

Michael Heap

Protect Your Services With Kong Gateway Key Authentication

Kong Gateway Key Authentication
EngineeringMay 25, 2021

This tutorial will walk through a common use case for the Kong Gateway Key Authentication plugin : using API key authentication to protect a route to an API server endpoint. It’s a simple use case, but it will give you the foundation to deploy and configure the plugin for your own unique project…

Aapo Talvensaari

API Versioning Guidelines and Best Practices

Service Design Guidelines
EngineeringMay 24, 2021

We looked at service design considerations in the first part of this blog series . In this next part, I'd like to share some best practices for API versioning - a topic that comes up quite often with every customer as it is one of the key concerns when implementing API gateways . There…

Vikas Vijendra

Moving an Application from VM to Kubernetes

Moving from VM to Kubernetes
EngineeringMay 19, 2021

Containerization and orchestration are becoming increasingly popular. According to a recent survey conducted by Market Watch, the global container market will exceed $5 billion by 2026. In 2019, that number was under 1 billion. These statistics show that the world is moving more towards containers…

Michael Heap

Protecting Services With Kong Gateway Rate Limiting

Kong Gateway Rate Limiting Tutorial
EngineeringMay 18, 2021

The Kong Gateway Rate Limiting plugin is one of our most popular traffic control add-ons. You can configure the plugin with a policy for what constitutes "similar requests" (requests coming from the same IP address, for example), and you can set your limits (limit to 10 requests per minute, for…

Guanlan Dai

Implementing Client Credentials With Kong and Okta

Kong Konnect and Okta Post #1
EngineeringMay 13, 2021

Using Kong's OpenID Connect (OIDC) plugin, Kong and Okta work together to solve three significant application development challenges: The OIDC plugin enables Kong, as the API gateway , to communicate with Okta via the OAuth/OIDC flows. That way, your app teams don't have to configure and diagnose…

Claudio Acquaviva

Kong Configurations Using Terraform via GitOps Model

Kong Configurations Using Terraform via GitOps Model
EngineeringMay 4, 2021

As organizations adopt a microservices architecture , API gateway usage has increased. Kong Gateway is one of the promising API gateways in the market. It has both OSS and enterprise support, releases multiple features and is easy to use. Kong Admin API helps administrators configure the system…

Vaibhav Khurana

Deploying With Confidence Using Kong Gateway and Spinnaker

Deploying with Confidence with Kong Gateway and Spinnaker
EngineeringApril 29, 2021

Change is the primary cause of service reliability issues for agile engineering teams. In this post, I’ll cover how you can limit the impact of a buggy change, making it past your quality gates with Kong Gateway and Spinnaker for canary deployment. ~Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, on Advancing safe…

Ashwin Sadeep

3 Ways to Protect Your APIs With Kong Konnect and Fastly (Signal Sciences)

Kong Konnect and Fastly
EngineeringApril 27, 2021

Fastly's next-gen WAF (formerly Signal Sciences ) integrates with Kong Konnect to block malicious requests to your services. Kong Gateway provides a robust and secure enterprise API management platform to front web traffic. In partnership, Fastly focuses on Layer 7 application security for that…

Claudio Acquaviva

Developing a Kong Gateway Plugin With Go

Developing a Kong Gateway Plugin with Go
EngineeringApril 22, 2021

This tutorial shows you how to create a custom Kong Gateway plugin with Go programming language. The sample plugin I created adds an extra layer for security between consumers and producers. The way it works is it identifies consumers through a consumer-key from a query string. Without this…

Mert Simsek

Automate Service Mesh Observability With Kuma

Automating Service Mesh Observability with Kuma
EngineeringApril 20, 2021

The more services you have running across different clouds and Kubernetes clusters, the harder it is to ensure that you have a central place to collect service mesh observability metrics. That's one of the reasons we created Kuma , an open source control plane for service mesh. In this tutorial,…

Marco Palladino

Getting Started with Kong Mesh and Open Policy Agent

Getting Started with Kong Mesh and Open Policy Agent
EngineeringApril 15, 2021

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Cody De Arkland
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