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In part 1 of this series on Kubernetes , we discussed how companies like VMware offer the necessary tools to launch, monitor, create and destroy virtual machines. In this post, we review how - much like virtual machines - containers need to be created, monitored, destroyed and relaunched to account…
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In the last blog post , we discussed the need for both speed and quality for your API delivery and how APIOps can help achieve both. In this part of our blog post series, we'll walk through what the API lifecycle looks like when following APIOps. We're still following the best practice we've…
[](/blog/enterprise/automating-api-lifecycle-apiops-part-2)Today, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and microservices are the de-facto standard for building and connecting modern applications. APIs are no longer just a delivery mechanism but have become the product itself . API lifecycle management refers to the comprehensive, step-by-step process…
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In this three-part blog series, we examine the critical role Kubernetes plays in shaping the future of infrastructure, including the rise of containers and Kubernetes . This post, the first in the series, covers Next-Generation Application Development. The second covers the Next Frontier: Container…
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In this episode of Kongcast , I had the pleasure of speaking with Viktor Farcic , developer advocate at Upbound , about why empowering developers to manage the full application lifecycle helps app development teams increase efficiency. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below,…
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If you could clone yourself, you could get your work done a lot faster, right? And that would free up time for you to pursue new projects and advance your career. It's an idea that Kong Vice President of Products Reza Shafii discussed recently as part of Destination: Automation , a free digital…
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In the last blog , we discussed the challenges in managing APIs at scale in a Kubernetes environment. We also discussed how deploying a Kubernetes Ingress Controller or an API gateway can help you address those challenges. In this blog, we will briefly touch upon some of the similarities and…
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The inner workings of an API gateway request can be difficult to understand because of its scale. To provide some orientation, we will use the real world as a reference, from planet-spanning infrastructure to a person eating a chocolate bar (processing a server response in a plugin). This series…
[](/blog/enterprise/api-gateway-request)In our first episode of Kongcast , I had the pleasure of speaking with Liz Fong-Jones , principal developer advocate at Honeycomb , about the concept of error budgets for service level objectives (SLOs) and how to accelerate software delivery with observability. Check out the transcript and video…
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One of the things that’s quite interesting about service mesh is that it has not been a very well-defined category for a very long time. Service mesh is not a means to an end. By looking at its adoption, we’ve been seeing a refocus on the end use case that service mesh allows us…
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Kubernetes continues to lead the container orchestration charge. In fact, according to the latest CNCF survey , 83% of respondents said they were using Kubernetes in production. Kubernetes provides you with key features such as self-healing capabilities, automated rollouts and rollbacks, automated…
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Automating digital transformation API deployments can help speed time to market and minimize the resources required for the deployments — if developers can be assured that the automated process meets all necessary security requirements. It's a topic that Kong Senior CustomerExperience Manager Peggy…
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More and more companies are eager to move their operations to the cloud. Yet, there's quite a bit of ambiguity on what moving to the cloud actually means . Is your business running in the cloud while you host your database on another platform or while you rely on a third-party service to handle…
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In my Service Mesh 101 article, I talked about some of the basics behind a service mesh: what it is, what it does and where Envoy fits into a service mesh. Having now covered those basics, I'd like to dig into some more in-depth content focused on the basics of Envoy configuration in a…
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If you've done any reading about service meshes, you've probably come across mentions of an open source project named Envoy. And if you've done any reading about Envoy, you've probably seen references to service meshes. How are these two technologies related? How are they different? Do they work…
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