In this episode of Kongcast , I had the pleasure of speaking with Aaron Weikle , the founder and CEO at MS3 , about supporting legacy-based applications as companies add the next generation of microservices. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe A…
A developer portal is a storefront to your APIs (the products) that internal and external developers are trying to consume. The Kong Developer Portal provides a single source of truth for all developers to locate, access and consume services. With intuitive content management for documentation,…
This post highlights how you could use Kong Gateway to implement a solution for the Australian Consumer Data Standards (CDS) , which is part of the Consumer Data Right legislation introduced by the Australian Government in November 2017. As detailed on the Australian ACCC website: CDR will give…
Many organizations have been able to accomplish impressive things using Kong products, including Kong Konnect, Kong Enterprise, Kong Gateway, Kuma and Insomnia. We recently honored four of these enterprises in the inaugural Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards program during Kong Summit 2021.…
There are good reasons for spreading workloads and applications across multiple clouds. Options include using a combination of public and on-premises cloud platforms, a strategy known as hybrid cloud—or using more than one public cloud provider, a strategy known as multi-cloud. What are those…
Changing the technology an organization works with is a bit like taking up a new sport. Your initial excitement leads you to buy the most expensive equipment you can find, leaving you soon to realize that your new tools have created a steep learning curve. Transitioning out of monolithic…
In this episode of Kongcast , I had the pleasure of speaking with Ben Greenberg , the developer advocate at Orbit.Love , about building better engineering communities and focusing on the outcomes rather than technology. At the end, he shows us how he leveraged GitHub Actions to create a…
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where all your service mesh services are running in Kubernetes, and now you need to expose them to the outside world securely and reliably? Ingress management is essential for your configuration and operations when exposing services outside of a cluster.…
This blog and video were co-created by David La Motta (Kong), Ross McDonald (Kong) and Alex Dworjan (Red Hat). Murphy's Law “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” To us mortals, that means we should try to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Disaster Recovery (DR) is crucial to every…
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…
Event Hooks is a new Kong Enterprise feature launched in the Kong Gateway 2.5 Release . This feature sends you notifications when certain events happen on your Kong Gateway deployment. Kong Gateway listens for events, like routes, services, consumers, certificates, plugins, workspaces and RBAC…
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…
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…
Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller 2.0 (KIC) - the most robust, scalable, and extensible version of our Kubernetes Ingress Controller to date. This is a major milestone both for the KIC product as well as for the Kong community as a whole. In…
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…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.