We recently sat down to discuss the language for the next Kong Gateway Plugin Development Kit (PDK). Given the number of JavaScript developers in the world and the variety of libraries and debugging tools available, there was only one logical choice. I'm excited to share that with the Kong Gateway…
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This tutorial will walk through a common use case for the Kong Gateway Key Authentication plugin : using API key authentication to protect a route to an API server endpoint. It’s a simple use case, but it will give you the foundation to deploy and configure the plugin for your own unique project…
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Join Kong at this year's Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit. The much anticipated virtual event will feature thought leaders like Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino . Gartner's Summit brings together application leaders from around the world to improve the way they…
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We looked at service design considerations in the first part of this blog series . In this next part, I'd like to share some best practices for API versioning - a topic that comes up quite often with every customer as it is one of the key concerns when implementing API gateways . There…
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Containerization and orchestration are becoming increasingly popular. According to a recent survey conducted by Market Watch, the global container market will exceed $5 billion by 2026. In 2019, that number was under 1 billion. These statistics show that the world is moving more towards containers…
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The Kong Gateway Rate Limiting plugin is one of our most popular traffic control add-ons. You can configure the plugin with a policy for what constitutes "similar requests" (requests coming from the same IP address, for example), and you can set your limits (limit to 10 requests per minute, for…
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Using Kong's OpenID Connect (OIDC) plugin, Kong and Okta work together to solve three significant application development challenges: The OIDC plugin enables Kong, as the API gateway , to communicate with Okta via the OAuth/OIDC flows. That way, your app teams don't have to configure and diagnose…
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Today, we are thrilled to announce that we have expanded open access to Kong Konnect, the world's only cloud native, full lifecycle service connectivity platform, for everybody anywhere in the world, thanks to a new plan called Konnect Plus! Available today with a free 30-day trial . The era of…
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As organizations adopt a microservices architecture , API gateway usage has increased. Kong Gateway is one of the promising API gateways in the market. It has both OSS and enterprise support, releases multiple features and is easy to use. Kong Admin API helps administrators configure the system…
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Change is the primary cause of service reliability issues for agile engineering teams. In this post, I’ll cover how you can limit the impact of a buggy change, making it past your quality gates with Kong Gateway and Spinnaker for canary deployment. ~Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, on Advancing safe…
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It's official! For the second year in a row, Kong has been certified as a Great Place to Work® ! We are thrilled to share that 94% of our employees say that Kong is a great place to work - 35% higher than the average U.S.-based company. This award is not only a true…
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Fastly's next-gen WAF (formerly Signal Sciences ) integrates with Kong Konnect to block malicious requests to your services. Kong Gateway provides a robust and secure enterprise API management platform to front web traffic. In partnership, Fastly focuses on Layer 7 application security for that…
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This tutorial shows you how to create a custom Kong Gateway plugin with Go programming language. The sample plugin I created adds an extra layer for security between consumers and producers. The way it works is it identifies consumers through a consumer-key from a query string. Without this…
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The more services you have running across different clouds and Kubernetes clusters, the harder it is to ensure that you have a central place to collect service mesh observability metrics. That's one of the reasons we created Kuma , an open source control plane for service mesh. In this tutorial,…
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