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# decK

The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.

# kongctl 1.0: A Declarative, AI-Native CLI for Kong Konnect

[GitOps](/blog/tag/gitops)GitOpsJune 12, 2026

Today we're announcing kongctl 1.0, Kong's new command-line (CLI) tool for managing Kong Konnect programmatically. This release brings kongctl to the Generally Available (GA) level of support and capabilities, giving developers, platform engineers, and AI coding agents a streamlined tool for…

Rick Spurgeon

# Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server Technical Breakdown

[MCP](/blog/tag/mcp)MCPDecember 11, 2025

"Too much information running through my brain." When The Police sang this opening line on their 1981 album Ghost in the Machine , they weren't thinking about artificial intelligence, but the sentiment perfectly captures the state of modern AI. The song warns of an overload of data that parallels…

Claudio Acquaviva

# Introducing kongctl

[API Gateway](/blog/tag/api-gateway)API GatewayOctober 15, 2025

One of Kong Gateway’s superpowers is deck , our first-party declarative configuration tool. Tens of thousands of developers all around the world have embraced a text-driven, version-controlled configuration workflow for the world’s most used API Gateway . The deck CLI is an incredible tool, but it…

Michael Heap

# Announcing terraform-provider-konnect v3

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectAugust 22, 2025

It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated management of your Konnect organization. There have been…

Michael Heap

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# Managing Kong with Terraform

[Kong Gateway](/blog/tag/kong-gateway)Kong GatewaySeptember 11, 2024

One of the superpowers of Kong Gateway that its users most appreciate is its declarative configuration management capabilities, facilitated by the decK command line tool. Declarative configuration enables you to manage your Kong Gateway configuration using GitOps practices, including federated…

Michael Heap

# Fortify API Gateway Deployments with decK File Linting

[API Gateway](/blog/tag/api-gateway)API GatewayNovember 29, 2023

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…

Rick Spurgeon

# Enhancing APIOps and Federated API Management with decK 1.24

[API Management](/blog/tag/api-management)API ManagementJuly 25, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a significant milestone in our journey to provide the best possible developer experience to our Kong user community. We have added a host of new functionality to decK , our declarative management tool for Kong Gateway . These new functions enhance…

Rick Spurgeon

# decK 1.7.0 Released

decK 1.7.0 Released
[API Gateway](/blog/tag/api-gateway)API GatewayMay 27, 2021

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…

Michael Heap

# GitOps to Configure Kong: How to Set Up GitHub Actions Using decK

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[Automation](/blog/tag/automation)AutomationJune 16, 2020

Kong’s fast, lightweight and scalable API management solution helps improve developer productivity by automating the delivery of API management. One way Kong automates API management is through a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process by leveraging Kong's decK (declarative…

Takafumi Ikeda

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