The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
In the rapidly evolving world of microservices and cloud-native applications , service mesh has emerged as a critical tool for managing complex, distributed systems. As organizations increasingly adopt microservices architectures, they face new challenges in service-to-service communication,…
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Rolling out new versions of your apps on Kubernetes can be tricky, but knowing the different deployment options is important for keeping your services running smoothly with little to no downtime. This rabbithole of Kubernetes deployment methods may seem daunting and difficult to comprehend (there’s…
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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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There are many different ways to deploy Kong Gateway. In this post, Viktor Gamov (Principal Developer Advocate at Kong) walks through the four most popular ways. Depending on your particular use case, you may find that one or more of these is a good fit. Let's get started! Using the DB-less and…
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In my previous post on scaling Kong deployments with and without a database , we covered the concepts of deploying Kong with and without a database, as well as using decK, distributed, and hybrid deployments. In this article, we take a tour of some of the possible Kubernetes deployments of Kong.…
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As the world's most popular API Gateway , Kong Gateway is flexible and can be adapted to various environments and deployment configurations. This flexibility means some time should be taken to make good architectural decisions for the use cases in mind. For example, the best configuration for a…
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We understand that our customers need to deploy Kong in a variety of environments and with different deployment mode needs. That is why two years ago, in Kong 1.1, we introduced DB-less mode, the ability to run Kong without the need of connecting to a database. We then demonstrated the Hybrid mode…
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It's not uncommon for organizations to have to deploy solutions across (or among) multiple security domains. Here, we use the term "security domain" to refer to a segregated network environment, like a restricted internal network or a DMZ. This post will explore some design considerations when…
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Kong Mesh (and Kuma , the open source project upon which Kong Mesh is built) supports multiple zones and meshes. What is the difference between a zone and a mesh, though? And when should one use a zone versus a mesh or vice versa? By the time you're done reading this blog post, you'll…
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Continuous integration and continuous deployment—known colloquially as CI/CD—are essential strategies for building modern software applications. The goal of these processes is to foster a culture of continuous updates. CI is the process by which an external machine (not your local development…
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Infrastructure as code is a core component of all modern SRE team's day-to-day work. There are plenty of options available, but the one that I'm most excited about is Pulumi . Instead of writing a domain-specific language (DSL) to configure your infrastructure, Pulumi lets you write the language…
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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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Today, we're excited to announce a new research project we've been kicking around at Kong: Kong Embedded! If you've used the Kong Gateway before or heard us talk about it, one of the things we're very proud of is that Kong Gateway uses a very small resource footprint. It's a small download in size,…
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Welcome to our second hands-on Kuma guide! The first one walked you through securing your application with mTLS using Kuma. Today, this guide will walk you through Kuma's new L4 traffic routing rules. These rules will allow you to easily implement blue/green and Kubernetes canary deployments. In…
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When we build software, it's critical that we test and roll-out the software in a controlled manner. To make sure this happens, we make use of available tools and best practices to make sure that the software works as intended. We conduct code reviews, execute all the possible unit, integration,…
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