The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
To unlock Kubernetes’ full potential, many enterprises are relying on three key building blocks available in Kong Konnect today: Together, these components extend Kubernetes from being just a container orchestration platform. They lay the foundation for Kubernetes to support the exposure,…
Kong Mesh 2.14 delivers important improvements for multi-zone customers, with expanded policy support for zone proxies, new SNI-based matching for cross-zone and external-service traffic, stronger default security settings, and better observability through OpenTelemetry and Grafana dashboards. What…
Kong Operator 2.2 is now available. This release continues our work to make Kubernetes the central place to manage more of the Kong ecosystem. In 2.1, we expanded what customers could do with Konnect and Gateway API. With 2.2, we're building on that foundation by bringing Kong Event Gateway and…
Customers today face significant challenges as their Kubernetes environments scale. The proliferation of microservices, external integrations, and new AI workloads increases traffic volume and connectivity complexity, creating material risks to performance and availability. The core issue is a lack…
Kong Operator 2.1 is a significant update for our customers, opening up integration into the Kong ecosystem for our Kubernetes customers. 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…
The Kubernetes networking landscape is evolving, and recent announcements confirm a significant community shift. The Kubernetes community recently announced the upcoming retirement of one of its most widely used components: Ingress NGINX "To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem,…
We're very excited to announce Kong Operator 2.0! Kong Operator is an evolution of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) and Kong Gateway Operator into a single Kubernetes offering to simplify deployment, management, configuration, and upgrades of your Kong Gateway instances on Kubernetes. Simplified…
The best way to learn a new technology is often to try it. Even if you prefer reading docs, hands-on experimentation is an ideal accompaniment to written instructions. Today I’m happy to announce the fastest and easiest way to try Kong on Kubernetes — the new Kong Kubernetes App on the Google Cloud…
In the modern SaaS world, observability is key to running software reliability, managing risks and deriving business value out of the code that you're shipping. To measure how your service is performing, you record Service Level Indicators (SLIs) or metrics, and alert whenever performance,…
Welcome to our second hands-on Kuma guide! The first one walked you through securing your application with mTLS using Kuma. Today, this guide will walk you through Kuma's new L4 traffic routing rules. These rules will allow you to easily implement blue/green and Kubernetes canary deployments. In…
Kong for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on the Kong Gateway open source project. Kong for K8s is fully Kubernetes-native and provides enhanced API management capabilities. From an architectural perspective, Kong for K8s consists of two parts: A Kubernetes controller, which…
A year ago, Harry Bagdi wrote an amazingly helpful blog post on observability for microservices. And by comparing titles, it becomes obvious that my blog post draws inspiration from his work. To be honest, that statement on drawing inspiration from Harry extends well beyond this one blog post - but…
Once upon a time, we had these giant structures where thousands of people would congregate to share ideas, pamphlets filled to the margins with buzz words and cheap, branded t-shirts. Yep, tech conferences - oh what a relic of the past that I miss. It used to be part of my job to attend…
From the Kong API Gateway perspective, using Consul as its Service Discovery infrastructure is one of the most well-known and common integration use cases. With this powerful combination more flexible and advanced routing policies can be implemented to address Canary Releases, A/B testings,…
Containerization and orchestration are becoming increasingly popular. According to a recent survey conducted by Market Watch, the global container market will exceed $5 billion by 2026. In 2019, that number was under 1 billion. These statistics show that the world is moving more towards containers…
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…