Simplified controller configuration When using the Kong Ingress Controller, a significant amount of effort was needed to apply configuration to the controller by setting environment variables. The new ControlPlane resource greatly simplifies this and allows you to set configuration once at the…
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-operator-2-0)Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) is the most effective way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or Kubernetes Ingress. The latest release of the Kong Gateway Operator brings several updates that streamline integration with Kong Konnect and improve configuration and reliability. Below,…
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While Kubernetes has become the standard platform for container orchestration, managing complex application lifecycles can still be a challenge. That's where Kubernetes Operators and Helm Charts come in. This guide dives into both of these tools to explain what they do, how they're different, and…
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Kubernetes, or K8s, is one of the most powerful open source container orchestration systems — especially for its automatic implementation of a desired state. In other words, as an admin, you get to specify how you want your application and cluster to behave, and the control plane executes it for…
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Rolling out new versions of your apps on Kubernetes can be tricky, but knowing the different deployment options is important for keeping your services running smoothly with little to no downtime. This rabbithole of Kubernetes deployment methods may seem daunting and difficult to comprehend (there’s…
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Kubernetes , or K8s as its often known, is an open source platform for deploying containerized applications in distributed systems, where computing resources are provided by multiple separate machines that are connected over a network to form a cluster. Having been designed for very large systems…
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