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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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…
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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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**As of December 2021, Kong Gateway has now released our 2.7 version! This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important features that serve as a foundation for addressing API security and compliance.** Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of Kong Gateway 2.6!…
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Continuous integration and continuous deployment—known colloquially as CI/CD—are essential strategies for building modern software applications. The goal of these processes is to foster a culture of continuous updates. CI is the process by which an external machine (not your local development…
[](/blog/engineering/api-gateway-ci-cd-pipeline)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…
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As APIs and microservices evolve, the architecture used to secure these resources must also mature. Utilizing a token-based architecture to protect APIs is a robust, secure and scalable approach, and it is also much safer than API keys or basic authentication. However, token-based architecture…
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As Kong continues to expand its global footprint, we recently added Kore Labs , experts in FinTech digital product lifecycle management solutions, to the Kong customer community in the UK. Kore built its cloud-enabled solution on top of Kong in order to revamp its architecture to scale and provide…
[](/blog/news/kore-labs)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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We are thrilled to be once again recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management . We believe this recognition reinforces our commitment to our customers, who rely on us to continue innovating so they can build solutions that unlock growth, security and…
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Infrastructure as code is a core component of all modern SRE team's day-to-day work. There are plenty of options available, but the one that I'm most excited about is Pulumi . Instead of writing a domain-specific language (DSL) to configure your infrastructure, Pulumi lets you write the language…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-gateway-pulumi)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.