The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Kong’s open-source API Gateway is a highly successful project with over 33k stars on GitHub and 293 contributors. Kong provides a powerful platform that can be extended using hundreds of plugins provided by Kong, ecosystem partners, and the community. Kong’s Enterprise subscription provides an…
What is SAML? Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard that allows organizations to set up single sign-on (SSO) across multiple websites and applications. SAML 2.0 is the latest standard, and was ratified in March 2005, replacing SAML 1.1. We’ll refer to SAML as…
We're excited to announce the general availability of Kong Enterprise 3.1. In Kong Enterprise 3.1, we build on the foundation of our plugin ecosystem by introducing five new plugins and enhancing the functionality of existing ones. These include: We'll explore the ins and outs of each of these…
Before exposing your company's APIs, your highest priority should be to assure the API security , governance and reliability of that architecture. To do so, you'll need to use an API gateway as a single secure entry point for API consumers rather than allowing direct access to APIs. Kong Gateway…
A developer portal is a storefront to your APIs (the products) that internal and external developers are trying to consume. The Kong Developer Portal provides a single source of truth for all developers to locate, access and consume services. With intuitive content management for documentation,…
What a year we have had! Hypergrowth, a huge community, and lots of recognition. But what we are most proud of is how Kong's technology has impacted the world, thanks to our users. We can't thank these users and the community enough for making Kong the most adopted open source API gateway out…
I'm excited to announce that Kong Enterprise, our modern, scalable service connectivity platform, is now available on top cloud marketplaces, including AWS Marketplace and GovCloud (US) regions, Azure Marketplace, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat Marketplace! Built on Kong's core open source…
Today, we're proud to announce the release of Kong Enterprise 2.2 GA! Kong Enterprise 2.2 is built on top of version 2.2 of our popular open source gateway and brings with it a slew of new features and some Enterprise-only features on top. Let's dive in! For a long time, Kong has supported not…
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,…
Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of one of the most important releases of Kong Enterprise we've had to date — Kong Enterprise 2.1 is here! This release represents a fundamental shift in how customers can deploy, manage and scale Kong Enterprise across their…
Having worked with many customers and prospects at Kong, one of the main requirements we often hear is how to handle dynamic routing based on the URL and headers. In this blog post, I will cover different use cases we come across for dynamic routing and how Kong can address them. The default…
We are pleased to announce the next release of our flagship enterprise offering, Kong Enterprise 1.5! This follow-up release adds additional stability and features on top of our last major release, Kong Enterprise 1.3 , which we announced at Kong Summit 2019 . Kong Enterprise 1.5 key features…
We are proud to announce the General Availability of the latest version of our flagship enterprise offering , Kong Enterprise 2020. At last year's Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we're…
With the 1.3 release , Kong is now able to natively manage and proxy gRPC services. In this blog post, we'll explain what gRPC is and how to manage your gRPC services with Kong. gRPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) framework initially developed by Google circa 2015 that has seen growing adoption…
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