APIs have become a crucial part of modern software architecture, allowing different applications and services to communicate with each other. As organizations adopt microservices and distribute their systems, they require a cohesive API platform to manage these complex environments.
In this blog post, we’ll explore the principles of a modern API platform, the problems with legacy solutions, and how platforms like Kong Konnect provide a comprehensive set of capabilities to help teams build, secure, monitor, and publish APIs at scale — enabling organizations to grant flexibility to developers while ensuring governance and security.
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A modern API platform follows several core principles:
Traditional API management solutions fail to meet the demands of modern infrastructure:
Modern API management platforms like Kong Konnect provide integrated solutions to these challenges:
Kong Konnect provides centralized control over distributed Kong Gateway instances. Teams can self-manage their own gateways via isolated control planes with appropriate governance guardrails in place. This facilitates decentralization while maintaining consistency.
The gateway manager capability allows configuring, monitoring, and managing of gateways through a multi-tenant interface. Gateway groups allow aggregating configuration from multiple control planes onto shared infrastructure.
Kong Konnect integrates with Kong's declarative configuration tooling for infra-as-code automation. YAML or JSON files declare gateway config while the Kong Konnect controller handles syncing it to live instances.
Workflows auto-generate configs from API specs and layer on governance policies. GitOps-style pipelines manage infrastructure immutably. This facilitates consistency and velocity.
API products provide a centralized catalog mapping distributed services on gateways into shareable products. This facilitates discovering and consuming APIs consistently across the organization.
Products support versioning, documentation, and SDK generation for building a developer portal. Application registration controls access to managed APIs.
Leveraging Kong Konnect provides many advantages for managing a distributed API landscape:
Modern platforms like Kong Konnect provide integrated solutions to the challenges of managing APIs across complex, distributed environments. Robust control planes, developer self-service, and federated models provide scalable access management. Automation tooling enables infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows. Holistic lifecycle management brings seamless visibility and governance across the entire API and service landscape.
Kong Konnect provides a comprehensive toolkit to manage every aspect of the API lifecycle — from building to publishing, securing, monitoring, and maintaining APIs.
Kong's flexible architecture integrates with existing infrastructure and lets you adopt capabilities at your own pace. If you're building or modernizing an API platform, Kong Konnect provides an enterprise-ready foundation for your API infrastructure and ecosystem. Start for free!
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