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…
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…
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…
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…
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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While organizations work to innovate with new services and offerings, silos can lead to inefficient pockets, restricting the ability to take incubation projects to market. This can limit the speed and efficiency to scale the new offering. So how does your organization offer a scalable platform to…
In this Kong Gateway tutorial, you'll learn how to: Keep in mind that these instructions are a starting point. You may need to change some of the steps to harden your environment when running in production. For more detailed information, visit our Kong Gateway documentation . One of the reasons…
Almost all aspects of businesses are transforming to digital and internet-based solutions. It’s happening from the ground up, starting with developers. You're building applications for your organizations, and you're racing to get software and services out to the market faster. The faster your…
This tutorial shows you how easy it is to build a custom Lua plugin for Kong Gateway. My Kong Lua plugin example will automatically add a custom header to any response sent out, indicating the current plugin version. Kong API Gateway is built on OpenResty , which extends the NGINX proxy server to…
Many companies are leveraging DevOps, microservices , automation, self-service, cloud and CI/CD pipelines. These megatrends are changing how companies are building and running software. One thing that often slips through the cracks is security. With microservices, there's an increase in the number…
We are truly excited to release Kong Mesh 1.2 today and introduce three new security capabilities that make it the most secure enterprise service mesh available today. Kong Mesh is built on open source Kuma which Kong created in 2019 and has since donated it to the CNCF . Kuma is a universal…
In this tutorial, I'm going to walk through adding OAuth2 authorization and authentication to your service with the Kong API Gateway OAuth2 plugin . First, I'll cover the fundamentals. If you're already familiar with how Kong Gateway and OAuth2 work, skip ahead to the tutorial . Interconnected.…
TL;DR Insomnia Designer and Insomnia Core are now Insomnia. Insomnia Designer users will have to migrate to the new Insomnia application and Designer will no longer receive updates. When we originally built Insomnia Designer, we didn’t want to make large changes to Insomnia without understanding…
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.
