The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
With Kong Ingress Controller, when your Control Plane was hosted in Kong Konnect, and you were using Kubernetes Gateway API, your dataplane, routes, and services were in read-only mode. When using Kong Ingress Controller with Kubernetes Gateway API, Kubernetes serves as the authoritative source of…
In today's digital landscape, APIs are the backbone of modern applications, and AI is the engine of innovation. As organizations increasingly rely on microservices and AI-powered features, the API gateway has become the critical control point for managing traffic. But as LLM/GenAI and MCP requests…
The goal of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is to simplify how companies connect their applications and data. The promise for the first wave of iPaaS platforms like Mulesoft and Boomi was straightforward: a central platform where APIs, systems, and workflows could be managed together…
The Kong MCP Registry acts as a central directory for AI agents and clients to access services that provide context or take action. For AI agents, think of it as a combination of a "Service Catalog" and a "Developer Portal." It offers the metadata, API endpoints, and capability definitions that…
We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science project but has become a margin-bleeding cost center. But "governance" and "monetization" shouldn't just be…
If you've used KAi before, you'll notice the difference immediately. The enhanced version has deeper access to your Konnect environment and new tools for debugging, analytics, and configuration management: The new KAi is more capable because it's backed by a structured set of tools that can query…
Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out that production use case for AI agents (OK, this one isn’t so typical unless you operate in our universe). But if you're responsible for your organization's AI strategy, we'd like…
The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation, every API request that powers your AI products — they all cost something. And right now, most organizations have no idea what they're spending, who's spending it, or how to control…
Kong Cloud Gateways are fully managed, high-performance data planes running on customer-dedicated infrastructure, orchestrated and operated by Kong through Kong Konnect . Customers can choose between: Together, these models give organizations the flexibility to run Kong where it makes the most…
InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data management, and AI/ML products on the information technology landscape. We are extremely proud to see Kong Konnect recognized for its role in unifying API and AI connectivity for stronger governance,…
The challenges of an acquisition frequently appear in a number of critical areas, especially when dealing with a platform as important as Kafka: Many organizations consider maintaining direct integration with their Kafka provider. However, compared to a direct coupling approach, an abstraction…
Kong Gateway is an API gateway and a core component of the Kong Konnect platform . Built on a plugin-based extensibility model, it centralizes essential functions such as proxying, routing, load balancing, and health checking, efficiently managing both microservices and traditional API traffic. An…
"To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX . Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no…
That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025 ! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the…
Data might be the fuel for AI. But APIs are the proper way to package that “fuel” as AI-ready “food” is through the API. AI coding tools can do a lot without APIs, but at some point they’ll need to be able to: . . . and all ideally without the engineer having to…
Picture this: you’ve spent months building a slick API that developers love, and it’s already humming behind the scenes in production. But every time someone calls your endpoint, what happens? You get an invisible hit across multiple cost centers, including expensive LLMs, without a clear line of…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.