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You've decided to install Kong Gateway. Congrats! You're almost ready to accelerate your microservices journey with the world's most popular open source API gateway . This article and video will guide you through the short version of our tutorial. If you prefer, here are some more detailed…
From the Kong API Gateway perspective, using Consul as its Service Discovery infrastructure is one of the most well-known and common integration use cases. With this powerful combination more flexible and advanced routing policies can be implemented to address Canary Releases, A/B testings,…
There is a great number of logging plugins for Kong , which might be enough for your needs. However, they have certain limitations: Zipkin is a tracing server, specialized in gathering timing data. Used in conjunction with Kong's Zipkin plugin , it can address the points above: For a basic setup,…
Having worked with many customers and prospects at Kong, one of the main requirements we often hear is how to handle dynamic routing based on the URL and headers. In this blog post, I will cover different use cases we come across for dynamic routing and how Kong can address them. The default…
Kong Enterprise provides many out-of-the-box plugins to support various access control solutions like basic authentication , key authentication , JWT, LDAP, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, among others. Most of the time, you should be able to find a plugin to suit your needs to protect your private or…
Once upon a time, we had these giant structures where thousands of people would congregate to share ideas, pamphlets filled to the margins with buzz words and cheap, branded t-shirts. Yep, tech conferences - oh what a relic of the past that I miss. It used to be part of my job to attend…
Kong’s fast, lightweight and scalable API management solution helps improve developer productivity by automating the delivery of API management. One way Kong automates API management is through a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process by leveraging Kong's decK (declarative…
In today’s enterprise computing landscape, multi-cloud organizations are quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception. By leveraging an API-first strategy with a microservice-based architecture, companies can achieve significant speed to market across multiple clouds. In order to achieve…
Kong Enterprise provides customers with the fastest, most scalable and flexible API management solution in the market. One of Kong's main advantages is the ability to quickly deploy and integrate with a customer's ecosystem of already-deployed solutions for identity management and monitoring. As…
A year ago, Harry Bagdi wrote an amazingly helpful blog post on observability for microservices. And by comparing titles, it becomes obvious that my blog post draws inspiration from his work. To be honest, that statement on drawing inspiration from Harry extends well beyond this one blog post - but…
In his most recent blog post, Marco Palladino, our CTO and co-founder, went over the difference between API gateways and service mesh . I highly recommend reading his blog post to see how API management and service mesh are complementary patterns for different use cases, but to summarize in his…
A modern API gateway like Kong enables organizations to achieve some use cases much more easily than traditional gateways. The reason is older, traditional gateways try to provide as many features as possible into a heavyweight monolith, while modern solutions use a best-in-breed approach. These…
Let's admit it - web services (SOAP) are here to stay for a few more years, and maybe for a long time in some places where there is no business incentive to rebuild them. However, with a decline in new SOAP web services and most applications moving to cloud native architectures, a common query…
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a powerful process - replacing manual, error prone and expensive operations with automated, consistent and quick provisioning of resources. In many cases, IaC is dependent on existing infrastructure, typically including a configuration management system. Chef, Puppet…
A common requirement for API gateways is to rewrite the published URL to a different URL for the upstream service’s endpoint. For example, due to legacy reasons, your upstream endpoint may have a base URI like /api/oilers/. However, you want your publicly accessible API endpoint to now be named…