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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…
Welcome to our second hands-on Kuma guide! The first one walked you through securing your application with mTLS using Kuma. Today, this guide will walk you through Kuma's new L4 traffic routing rules. These rules will allow you to easily implement blue/green and Kubernetes canary deployments. In…
At Kong, we leverage many tools to protect our services and customers. Terraform from HashiCorp allows us to automate the process with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Another important tool is Amazon Web Services (AWS) GuardDuty , a continuous monitoring service for security threat detection in your…
With the 1.3 release , Kong is now able to natively manage and proxy gRPC services. In this blog post, we'll explain what gRPC is and how to manage your gRPC services with Kong. gRPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) framework initially developed by Google circa 2015 that has seen growing adoption…
When a data breach occurs involving a cloud service, the impulsive reaction is to denounce using the cloud (at least for sensitive information). Since cloud security is not widely understood, it may be difficult to delineate it in the context of more general information security. Out of the box,…
Calling all technical writers! Kong is applying to participate in this year’s Season of Docs and would love to work alongside you. The goal is to foster collaboration between open source projects and technical writers. Season of Docs is a unique program that pairs technical writers with our open…
In the modern SaaS world, observability is key to running software reliability, managing risks and deriving business value out of the code that you're shipping. To measure how your service is performing, you record Service Level Indicators (SLIs) or metrics, and alert whenever performance,…
With Kong 1.0 users are now able to control TCP (Transport Control Protocol) traffic. Learn about how we added TCP support, and how you can try it out. TCP traffic powers email, file transfer, ssh, and many other common types of traffic that can't be handled by a layer 7 proxy. Our expansion to…
API Fortress is a continuous testing platform for APIs. We've been a friend to Kong since the beginning. In this guest blog post, we explain how our company uses Kong to facilitate the process of virtualizing APIs. As more companies adopt microservice architectures and DevOps best practices, APIs…
Kong is very easy to get up and running: start an instance, configure a service, configure a route pointing to the service, and off it goes routing requests, applying any plugins you enable along the way. But Kong can do a lot more than connecting clients to services via routes. In this talk from…
In our last blog post in this series, we discussed our journey designing a metrics pipeline for Kong Cloud to ensure the reliability of our SaaS offering. We discussed how we re-architected our production data pipeline using OpenResty to send metrics to Prometheus and saw huge performance gains. We…
Want to take your API to the next level? Then you should give your API an OpenAPI spec! An OpenAPI spec is more than just documentation — with it, you can leverage your API to generate client code, do automated testing and more! During Kong Summit, Wordnik Founder Erin McKean gave an overview of…
During the Kong Summit in September Chris Richardson, founder of CloudFoundry.com, gave an excellent talk describing the characteristics of microservice architectures . He outlined the benefits of microservices, including testability and deployability. He also discussed the drawbacks. Microservices…
The best way to learn a new technology is often to try it. Even if you prefer reading docs, hands-on experimentation is an ideal accompaniment to written instructions. Today I’m happy to announce the fastest and easiest way to try Kong on Kubernetes — the new Kong Kubernetes App on the Google Cloud…
Big thanks to the 37 people who joined us on the first-ever Kong Community Call! The inspiring demo, interesting discussion and enthusiastic participation have me looking forward to the monthly calls moving forward! As an evangelist for Kong, it makes me really happy to see such great participation…