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How to Develop a Cloud Native Infrastructure

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CloudSeptember 7, 2021

More and more companies are eager to move their operations to the cloud. Yet, there's quite a bit of ambiguity on what moving to the cloud actually means . Is your business running in the cloud while you host your database on another platform or while you rely on a third-party service to handle…

Garen Torikian

How to Leverage Insomnia as a GraphQL Client

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GraphQLAugust 24, 2021

Here at Kong, we're advocates for architecting your application as a group of microservices . In this design style, individual services are responsible for handling one aspect of your application, and they communicate with other services within your network to share data. Systems like Kubernetes or…

Garen Torikian

Managing Docker Apps With Kubernetes Ingress Controller

Managing a Docker Application with Kubernetes Ingress Controller
KubernetesJuly 6, 2021

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…

Alvin Lee

API Versioning Guidelines and Best Practices

Service Design Guidelines
API DesignMay 24, 2021

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…

Vikas Vijendra

Moving an Application from VM to Kubernetes

Moving from VM to Kubernetes
KubernetesMay 19, 2021

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…

Michael Heap

Kong Configurations Using Terraform via GitOps Model

Kong Configurations Using Terraform via GitOps Model
API ManagementMay 4, 2021

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…

Vaibhav Khurana

Developing a Kong Gateway Plugin With Go

Developing a Kong Gateway Plugin with Go
API GatewayApril 22, 2021

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…

Mert Simsek

Getting Started With Kuma Service Mesh

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Service MeshMarch 3, 2021

Kuma is an open source, CNCF service mesh that supports every environment, including Kubernetes and virtual machines. In this Kuma service mesh tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to get started. [iframe loading="lazy" width="890" height="560" src=""…

Marco Palladino

How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm with Kong API

Kong Gateway Rate Limiting Tutorial
API DesignJanuary 15, 2021

Rate limiting protects your APIs from inadvertent or malicious overuse by limiting how often each user can call the API. Without rate limiting, each user may make a request as often as they like, leading to "spikes" of requests that starve other consumers. Once enabled, rate limiting can only…

Guanlan Dai

How to Set Up Kong Gateway

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API GatewayDecember 2, 2020

You've decided to install Kong Gateway. Congrats! You're almost ready to accelerate your microservices journey with the world's most popular open source API gateway . This article and video will guide you through the short version of our tutorial. If you prefer, here are some more detailed…

Kevin Chen

Implement a Canary Release with Kong for Kubernetes and Consul

Implement a Canary Release with Kong for Kubernetes and Consul
KubernetesNovember 20, 2020

From the Kong API Gateway perspective, using Consul as its Service Discovery infrastructure is one of the most well-known and common integration use cases. With this powerful combination more flexible and advanced routing policies can be implemented to address Canary Releases, A/B testings,…

Kong

Service Design Guidelines Part 1: OpenAPI and Kong

Service Design Guidelines
API DesignNovember 20, 2020

We are in the midst of an explosion of APIs and microservices. For some, the first instinct of creating an API is to get down to building one. Some level of planning will help manage the quality of APIs when working within a team. In this series of blogs, we will be sharing some…

Vikas Vijendra

How to Use Kong Gateway With K3s For IoT and Edge Computing on Kubernetes

How to Use Kong Gateway With K3s For IoT and Edge Computing on Kubernetes
KubernetesJuly 1, 2020

Once upon a time, we had these giant structures where thousands of people would congregate to share ideas, pamphlets filled to the margins with buzz words and cheap, branded t-shirts. Yep, tech conferences - oh what a relic of the past that I miss. It used to be part of my job to attend…

Kevin Chen

Supporting Legacy Web Services (SOAP) With Kong API Gateway

Supporting Legacy Web Services (SOAP) With Kong API Gateway
API GatewayMarch 11, 2020

Let's admit it - web services (SOAP) are here to stay for a few more years, and maybe for a long time in some places where there is no business incentive to rebuild them. However, with a decline in new SOAP web services and most applications moving to cloud native architectures, a common query…

Vikas Vijendra

Infrastructure as Code without Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code without Infrastructure
API DevelopmentFebruary 18, 2020

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a powerful process - replacing manual, error prone and expensive operations with automated, consistent and quick provisioning of resources. In many cases, IaC is dependent on existing infrastructure, typically including a configuration management system. Chef, Puppet…

Dennis Kelly
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