Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while…
Wondering what’s new in Kong Konnect ? In this roundup, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities and expansions in Kong Konnect, including portal role-based access control (RBAC) API, OAS validation plugin, and support for Kong Gateway 3.2. Read on to learn more. You can now use Portal RBAC API…
We’re happy to announce the general availability of Kong Enterprise 3.2. In this release, we've taken significant steps to ensure the smooth and reliable operation of our API management solution. In Kong Enterprise 3.2, we've delivered key functionality for customers that operate Kong Enterprise in…
Red Hat OpenShift is the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform that runs ubiquitously across on-prem, and the cloud. With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) , a managed Red Hat OpenShift platform that runs natively on AWS, it is even easier to get kick-started on an…
Developers will remember times when they were trying to figure out why something they were working on wasn’t behaving as expected. Hours of frustration, too much (or perhaps never enough) caffeine consumed, and sotto voce curses uttered. And then — as if by fate — the issue is narrowed down to a…
In this post, we'll talk about what API SecOps is, including the fundamentals of it and the personas involved. Then, we'll discuss how API, microservice, and policy lifecycles integrate to produce a secure service in production, and why collaboration and API-First Design are essential for APISecOps…
A critical and challenging requirement for many organizations is meeting audit and compliance obligations. The goal of compliance is to secure business processes, sensitive data, and monitor for unauthorized activities or breaches. AWS CloudTrail Lake now enables customers to record user…
In this post, Nathaniel Reynolds, Associate Director of Informatics Architecture & DevOps at Moderna Therapeutics, talks about service mesh, removing limitations with open source, and how AI helps developers do more. No one can predict the future, but here's a safe bet: in the next five to ten…
Viktor Gamov also contributed to this post. In recent decades it's become common for communication between backend services to employ HTTP APIs with JSON payloads. Many HTTP APIs adhere (or at least aspire) to REST Principles, though many fall into a category we'll call "REST-like". Some…
Since our last Kong Konnect monthly update , we've been hard at work to deliver some more powerful features in Kong Konnect , including consumer groups, dynamic client registration using Curity and Auth0, plugin ordering, and streamlined Docker runtime instance creation. Read on to learn what's new…
We’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.1! In this release, we’re shipping the full suite of new and improved policies announced (and started) in 2.0. Additionally, we’re launching some more great UX improvements in the UI and a host of smaller fixes. In order to take…
The joy (and sometimes woe) of working in technology is that we're forever learning. The software stack is constantly changing, so innovators come to embrace a lifetime of learning. In this ever-evolving IT landscape, measurable skills have become the global currency for IT professionals. In this…
OAuth (short for Open Authorization) is a popular, standardized API protocol that provides a secure way for services to quickly share resources for a seamless user experience. Examples of OAuth in action include giving a greeting card service access to your photo library to make a custom holiday…
Kong’s open-source API Gateway is a highly successful project with over 33k stars on GitHub and 293 contributors. Kong provides a powerful platform that can be extended using hundreds of plugins provided by Kong, ecosystem partners, and the community. Kong’s Enterprise subscription provides an…
Hayden Lam also contributed to this post. Today we’re thrilled to announce new features in Kong Konnect , including secrets management, support for Kong Gateway 3.1, Analytics updates, runtime group APIs, system accounts, and an intuitive overview page and service wizard. In this blog, we'll…