The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
As of May 2024, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.3.x.x will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be a part of the full support cycle. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.3.x.x will enter a 12-month sunset support period, exclusively focused on helping customers upgrade to a current…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but there’s a lot of data out there — and the amount is only growing. Estimates typically show persistent data growth roughly at a 20% annual compounded rate. Capturing, storing, analyzing, and actioning data is at the core of digital applications, and it’s…
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In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use Gateway API HTTPRoutes to route traffic to workloads deployed in different namespaces in a single Kubernetes cluster — a process that’s easier than ever. Previously, we only had Ingress API to define ingress routing rules. It served us…
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Kong’s Wanny Morellato and Deepak Mohandas recently joined Justin and Autumn on the ShipIt podcast to talk hybrid infrastructure with Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh. They unravel the complexities of hybrid infrastructure at scale, discussing the processes, strategies, and philosophies that drive…
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We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.6. This version features a high-performance compression algorithm, efficient route matching, and improved observability. Plus, Kong AI Gateway , which you can learn more about here . Let’s dive into the enhancements and explore…
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We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.6. This version brings security, efficiency, and standards conformance to enterprise applications. Plus, Kong AI Gateway , which you can learn more about here . Let’s dive into the enhancements and explore the tangible…
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As Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform for deploying cloud native applications , networking and traffic management have emerged as pivotal challenges when managing access to services and infrastructure. The core Kubernetes Ingress resource addresses basic Layer 7 (L7) routing…
[](/blog/engineering/gateway-api-vs-ingress)As of February 2024, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.2.x.x will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and out of the full support cycle. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.2.x.x will enter a 12-month sunset support period, exclusively focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong…
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Today, we’re excited to release the Kong Konnect EKS Marketplace add-on as a means to deploy your Kong Gateway dataplanes in AWS. The add-ons are a step forward in providing fully managed Kubernetes clusters. It is here to simplify the post-procurement process of bootstrapping Kong Konnect gateway…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-konnect-eks-marketplace-add-on)As of December 2023, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.1.x.x will be going End Of Life and out of the Full Support cycle. Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.1.x.x will enter Sunset Support until December 2024. As a reminder, Kong Gateway Enterprise versions have 12 months of Full Support and a subsequent 12 months…
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API gateways serve as the final checkpoint for your APIs. As such, gateway configuration is critical to ensuring that your APIs remain secure, available, and responsive. Ensuring that all changes to these configurations are intentional and follow your organization's best practices is key to…
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Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.5 is packed with security features to support the use cases demanded by our enterprise customers through major improvements in Secrets Management integrations and our Open-ID Connect (OIDC) plugin. Additionally, we’ve added key security updates for a few of our AWS…
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.5 for Open Source (OSS). This release enables Javascript developers to extend the Gateway via the WebAssembly layer which is currently in Beta, delivers some enormous observability enhancements, and unlocks top-end performance.…
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The Kubernetes Gateway API represents a massive collaborative effort and key advancement in Kubernetes networking. Developed by multiple vendors and community members, the Gateway API provides a robust and extensible new standard for managing ingress traffic. With the recent general availability of…
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In the Kubernetes world, the Ingress API has been the longstanding staple for getting access to your Services from outside your cluster network. Ingress has served us well over the years and can be found present in several dozen different implementations, but as time has passed and Kubernetes has…
[](/blog/engineering/gateway-api-from-early-years-to-ga)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.