The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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…
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…
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…
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=""…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Wondering what’s new in Kong Konnect ? In this roundup, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities and expansions in Kong Konnect, including portal role-based access control (RBAC) API, OAS validation plugin, and support for Kong Gateway 3.2. Read on to learn more. You can now use Portal RBAC API…
Red Hat OpenShift is the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform that runs ubiquitously across on-prem, and the cloud. With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) , a managed Red Hat OpenShift platform that runs natively on AWS, it is even easier to get kick-started on an…
Since our last Kong Konnect monthly update , we've been hard at work to deliver some more powerful features in Kong Konnect , including consumer groups, dynamic client registration using Curity and Auth0, plugin ordering, and streamlined Docker runtime instance creation. Read on to learn what's new…
Hayden Lam also contributed to this post. Today we’re thrilled to announce new features in Kong Konnect , including secrets management, support for Kong Gateway 3.1, Analytics updates, runtime group APIs, system accounts, and an intuitive overview page and service wizard. In this blog, we'll…
We're excited to announce new features in Kong Konnect that are designed to increase security and streamline API management. Read on to learn more about what's new in Kong Konnect. Now you can give your users secure and fine-grained access to track analytics and monitoring information in Kong…