The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
If you've not heard of decK (our declarative configuration and drift detection tool for Kong Gateway ) before, now's a great time to get hands-on with it as we've just shipped decK v1.7.0 with a whole host of new goodies. Oh, and it's all open source as usual. v1.7.0 adds lots of Konnect -related…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. This blog post is part three of a three-part series on how they've scaled their API management with Kong Gateway , the world's most popular open source API gateway. (Here's part
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This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. This blog post is part two of a three-part series on how we've scaled our API management with Kong Gateway , the world's most popular open source API gateway. (Here’s part one…
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As you build and maintain more applications, your authentication strategy becomes increasingly important. It may also be top of mind for your boss since technology leaders cited "improve application security" as one of their top priorities in this year's Digital Innovation Benchmark . The Kong…
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Today, we have really exciting news to share with you all. The Enterprise version of our Kong Gateway is now generally available, and it's like nothing we've ever released before. One standout component of version 2.3 is that it now has a "free" operating mode so that anyone can start off using the…
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This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. As part of the UnitedHealth Group (UHG), Optum optimizes healthcare technology, and one of our important missions is to provide the tech infrastructure for this Fortune 7 healthcare…
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This article was written by Charles Boicey, Chief Innovation Officer at Clearsense. If healthcare data is genuinely going to impact a person’s well-being, we have to consider all patient data. Patients don’t spend much time with clinicians allowing them to collect data. Even most hospitalized…
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