This year, for the first time, Kong Summit will feature a highly anticipated annual event, the Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards. These awards officially recognize individuals and teams who have used Kong's technology to accelerate digital transformation within their organizations. The call for…
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Hello, Kong Nation 👋 ! We've fashioned a pristine version of the Kong Gateway (OSS) 2.5, which is now available on the normal channels. Read on for more release information. Imagine you're visiting a banking website to transfer funds to friends and family during the holiday season. If the wire…
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Over the past ten years, Clubhouse and other innovative startups built software quickly. They started from scratch and blew past their incumbents. But the fact of the matter is that speed is no longer a differentiator. Everyone can move quickly. We've seen it as Facebook and Twitter quickly…
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APIs have long been the programmer’s tool of choice for inter-application communication. Built by programmers, for programmers. Giving each other an interface and a means by which to call each other's code. As for documentation and ease of use, well…. All of the below examples are organizations and…
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Think back to when your development team made the switch to Dockerized containers. What was once an application requiring multiple services on virtual machines transitioned to an application consisting of multiple, tidy Docker containers. While the result was a streamlined system, the transition…
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Hello, everyone! Viktor Gamov, a developer advocate with Kong here. In this article, I would like to show you how to set up service connectivity using Kong Konnect and Kubernetes . I will deploy an application in Kubernetes, configure a runtime through Konnect and demonstrate some management…
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MS3 specializes in enterprise integration software, cloud migration strategies and API enablement. I've worked at MS3 for about five years. For the last year, I’ve been the principal product manager for Tavros , an enterprise integration platform from MS3. This article will dive into how we're…
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Kong's much anticipated Summit is back. Focused on Developing the Connected World, Kong API Summit 2021 will give you the tools to build new ideas, create actionable best practices and get hands-on with guiding your organization through transformation, delivering exciting innovation and securing…
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When setting up Kubernetes for the first time, one of the networking challenges you might face is how to safely grant outside clients access to your cluster. By default, pods within a cluster can communicate with all other pods and services. You should restrict access to anything outside of that…
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We all know that what customers see in the market is, in fact, only a small percent of the shifts happening within our organizations. Recently, Time Magazine stated that "Every Company is a Tech Company… The Disruption is Just Beginning." We're seeing it in the way we wait in lines, find places to…
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In our last Kong and Okta tutorial, we will implement a basic access control policy based on Okta’s groups and planes. This series will show you how to implement service authentication and authorization for Kong Konnect and Okta using the OpenID Connect ( OIDC ) plugin. Parts 1, 2 and 3…
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We are happy to announce a new major release of Kuma, and a new major release of Kong Mesh built on Kuma! Kuma 1.2 ships with 20 new features and countless improvements. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh. For…
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In this first section, I'll provide a quick overview of the business case and the tools you can use to create a Kubernetes ingress API gateway. If you're already familiar, you could skip ahead to the tutorial section or watch the video at the bottom of this article. Digital transformation has led…
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Kong Dev Portal comes out of the box with a RESTful API -based catalog and YAML-based template functionality. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to get to the next level of API documentation using Kong Dev Portal with GraphQL. That way, you'll be able to give your API developers an interactive…
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In our third Kong and Okta tutorial, we'll go through the introspection flow implementation. This series will show you how to implement service authentication and authorization for Kong Konnect and Okta using the OpenID Connect ( OIDC ) plugin. Parts 1, 2 and 4 cover: [iframe loading="lazy"…
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