The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
In the latest Kong Gateway 3.12 release , announced October 2025, specific MCP capabilities have been released: The Kong AI Gateway sits in between the AI applications we build and the MCP Servers and GenAI models we consume. In fact, the Kong MCP Gateway sits side-by-side with the Kong LLM…
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Built for developers We’ve taken the best parts of Terraform, deck, the AWS CLI, and more of your favorite tools and combined them into something that’s really special. kongctl takes inspiration from the AWS CLI, with support for profiles. Profiles are configuration sets that allow you to easily sw…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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