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Hello World: Meet the Engineers Behind Kong Konnect

Kong KonnectFebruary 20, 2024

Today we’re launching the Kong Konnect Engineering Tech Blog, dedicated to exploring the technology challenges and solutions we’ve encountered. The objective? To offer valuable technical content that enables our readers to broaden their engineering expertise. Kong has been in the software industry…

Danny Freese

Kong Konnect is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace

CloudJanuary 8, 2024

Now you can find and purchase Kong Konnect through the Google Cloud Marketplace! Kong Konnect is the unified API platform that allows you to manage multiple gateways across service meshes, ingress, cloud, and Kubernetes providers no matter where they run — on-premises, hybrid, cloud, or…

Erin Choi

Announcing the Kong Konnect Mesh EKS Blueprint Add-on

Kong KonnectJanuary 8, 2024

We’re excited to announce a new addition to our Kong Konnect EKS Blueprint Family: the Kong Konnect Mesh EKS Blueprint Add-on to deploy your Mesh Zones. Deploy your zones securely on AWS with the new Mesh Manager offering in Kong Konnect. It gives you an opinionated install of Kong Mesh to quickly…

Danny Freese

Kong Konnect EKS Marketplace Add-on for Kong Gateway Data Planes

API GatewayDecember 7, 2023

Today, we’re excited to release the Kong Konnect EKS Marketplace add-on as a means to deploy your Kong Gateway dataplanes in AWS. The add-ons are a step forward in providing fully managed Kubernetes clusters. It is here to simplify the post-procurement process of bootstrapping Kong Konnect gateway…

Danny Freese

Unveiling the New Kong Konnect: Where the Future of APIs Belongs

Kong KonnectSeptember 27, 2023

Today at API Summit 2023 , we’re launching a revolutionary update to Kong Konnect SaaS that brings together many of the innovations we’ve been developing this last year. This latest version of Kong Konnect is dedicated to visionary and pragmatic developers and customers who are working hard to make…

Augusto Marietti

Kong Konnect Runtime Instance and Konnect-KIC AWS EKS Terraform Blueprints Addons

AWSSeptember 18, 2023

With our AWS partnership, we jointly created two Kong Konnect AWS EKS Terraform Blueprints AddOns, eks-blueprint-konnect-runtime-instance and eks-blueprint-konnect-kic, to help bootstrap your Kong Konnect instances on EKS. In this post, we'll discuss what AWS EKS Blueprints AddOns for Terraform are…

Danny Freese

Kong Gateway 3.4 for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect

Kong GatewayAugust 14, 2023

We're delighted to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.4 for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect , featuring significant enhancements, such as secrets rotation support in secrets management, expanded plugin support in consumer groups, and more. The highlight of this update is the designation of…

Tom Brightbill

Use ChatGPT to Develop a SOAP/XML Custom Kong Konnect Plugin

AutomationAugust 1, 2023

Today, APIs are based on modern communication patterns: REST, GraphQL, or gRPC. But two decades ago, the majority of Web Services were developed with SOAP/XML. In this blog, we’ll explain how Kong Konnect can manage SOAP/XML Web Services by creating custom plugins and by using ChatGPT. We’ll…

Jerome Guillaume

Getting Started With Kong Konnect in 10 Minutes

API ManagementJuly 7, 2023

In this Kong Konnect tutorial, you'll learn how to leverage the platform to manage your API ecosystem from a single easy-to-use interface. We’ll run through how to: [iframe loading="lazy" title="Kong Konnect: Get Started with Kong Gateway in 10 Minutes" width="1200" height="675" src=""…

Adam Bauman

Elevating Enterprise Experience with Kong Gateway 3.3 for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect

API GatewayMay 25, 2023

In the digital age, a top-notch API gateway must not only be reliable and secure but also bring robust governance and security features designed for enterprise needs. The new Kong Gateway 3.3 for Open Source comes with robust enhancements such as configurable queuing behavior, high-scale…

Tom Brightbill

API-Managed Event Streaming with Kong Konnect and Amazon MSK

Kong KonnectMay 11, 2023

Event streaming allows companies to build more scalable and loosely coupled real-time applications supporting massive concurrency demands and simplifying the construction of services. Ultimately, we may need to grant access to such infrastructure to the most diverse entities, including external…

Claudio Acquaviva

Unveiling Kong Ingress Controller in Kong Konnect: The Power of True Unified API Management

API ManagementApril 18, 2023

As we continue to push the boundaries of API management, we're excited to announce the beta release of Kong Ingress Controller within Kong Konnect. Revealed at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, this new integration turns Kong Konnect into the world’s first modern unified end-to-end API…

Kong

Kong Enterprise & Kong Konnect with Amazon VPC Lattice

Kong KonnectMarch 31, 2023

At Kong, we're always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we're excited to announce that the Kong API…

Danny Freese

Implementing a Hybrid Kong Konnect Data Plane in Amazon ECS

API ManagementMarch 22, 2023

Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane,…

Claudio Acquaviva

How and Why to Migrate from Kong Open Source to Kong Konnect

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Open SourceMarch 1, 2023

Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while…

Jerry Hency
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