Kubernetes, or K8s, is one of the most powerful open source container orchestration systems — especially for its automatic implementation of a desired state. In other words, as an admin, you get to specify how you want your application and cluster to behave, and the control plane executes it for…
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Kong Ingress Controller 3.1 provides brand-new capabilities for keeping your secrets secure. We’ve introduced new KongVault and KongLicense CRDs, and added a way to keep sensitive information in your cluster when using KIC in Konnect. Finally, there’s a quality-of-life improvement that allows you…
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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…
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We’ve just shipped Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.10! This release makes KIC easier to use. In this blog we’ll cover: Expression Router: KIC 2.10 provides an early access preview to a new Rust-based router that has been available since Kong Gateway 3.0. The router enhances efficiency by…
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We're happy to announce the release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.9, in which we've taken significant steps towards solution extensibility, deployment flexibility, and lowering the cost of ownership. [iframe loading="lazy" title="What's new in Kong Ingress Controller 2.9 - Gateway Discovery…
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At Kong Summit this year, we announced the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.6. Today we are excited to announce the release of KIC 2.7 with even more features and improvements. Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API . Since…
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Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API . In this release, we're adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much…
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Today, Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.2 is now generally available. KIC 2.2 marks a major milestone in the development of the Kong Ingress Controller, as it is the first release containing a marquee feature, Gateway API. This represents a major milestone for Kong as we continue to keep up to date…
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Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller 2.0 (KIC) - the most robust, scalable, and extensible version of our Kubernetes Ingress Controller to date. This is a major milestone both for the KIC product as well as for the Kong community as a whole. In…
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While monitoring is an important part of any robust application deployment, it can also seem overwhelming to get a full application performance monitoring (APM) stack deployed. In this post, we'll see how operating a Kubernetes environment using the open-source Kong Ingress Controller can simplify…
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Just under one year ago, we launched version 1.0 of our Kong Ingress Controller (KIC). That was a huge milestone for us here at Kong, and we know it was for you - Kong Nation - as well. Since then, with the help of our community, we've merged over 300 new features and bug…
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APIs come in all different shapes and forms. In this tutorial, I'll show you a K8s Ingress gRPC example. I’ll explain how to deploy a gRPC service to Kubernetes and provide external access to the service using Kong's Kubernetes Ingress Controller. And to hype you up a little bit about the upcoming…
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Think back to when your development team made the switch to Dockerized containers. What was once an application requiring multiple services on virtual machines transitioned to an application consisting of multiple, tidy Docker containers. While the result was a streamlined system, the transition…
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In this first section, I'll provide a quick overview of the business case and the tools you can use to create a Kubernetes ingress API gateway. If you're already familiar, you could skip ahead to the tutorial section or watch the video at the bottom of this article. Digital transformation has led…
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A DMZ – Demilitarized Zone – is a military term, roughly summarized, as an area between two adversaries established as a buffer in order to reduce, or eliminate, the possibility of further conflict. In networking, the term usually refers to an area that acts as a buffer between two segregated…
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