The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
API gateways and service meshes often create confusion in microservices architectures. Rather than competing, they work together, much like a front door lock paired with room-by-room security. Organizations need both to achieve comprehensive protection, because each addresses a different layer of…
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Modern enterprise architecture faces a three-body problem. Three distinct traffic patterns pull your teams in different directions. External APIs serve mobile apps and partner integrations. Internal microservices communicate within Kubernetes clusters. AI and LLM calls flow to OpenAI, AWS Bedrock,…
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Today, we're excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.13. Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as a Long Term Support release, with support for a total of 2 years. But first, what's Kong Mesh for the uninitiated? Built on top of…
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The Challenge : API calls make up a massive 71% of all web traffic, yet many organizations still rely on traditional security tools designed for monolithic architectures. The Risk : Organizations face an average of 421 APIs to manage, with machine learning discovering 30.7% more API endpoints than…
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We’re excited to announce the beta support for Mesh Manager in the Konnect Terraform Provider — a new tool that brings the power of infrastructure-as-code to Kong’s Service Mesh management platform. This provider enables engineering teams to declaratively manage Konnect Mesh resources using…
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The word on the street is that ambient mesh is the obvious evolution of service mesh technology — leaner, simpler, and less resource-intensive. But while ambient mesh is an exciting development, the reality is more nuanced. It is more than likely that a sidecar-based mesh is still a better fit for…
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We’re at it again, bringing more incremental improvements to Kong Mesh! Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh brings much-needed simplicity and production-grade tooling. Kong Mesh is built for smooth operations with platform teams in mind, providing security, observability, and traffic control for…
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Many organizations struggle with managing API gateways across multiple cloud environments. In this blog post, we'll explore how Kong Mesh can solve these challenges and enable seamless cross-cloud connectivity. Many large companies operate API gateways in multiple regions or cloud service…
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The focus of this blog is to provide step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring Kong Mesh with Kong Konnect on an AWS ECS instance so that anyone will be able to get pre-production installation of Kong Mesh standing up on their own. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform…
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We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Kong Mesh 2.9 in mid-September. This release comes with many improvements around security configurations, resiliency, and platform flexibility and we’re excited for everyone to get their hands on it. While we’re putting the finishing touches on the…
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Container technologies are always evolving — and we're not talking Tupperware here. Over the past years, service mesh has emerged as a crucial component for managing complex, distributed systems. As organizations increasingly adopt Kubernetes for orchestrating their containerized applications,…
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In the rapidly evolving world of microservices and cloud-native applications , service mesh has emerged as a critical tool for managing complex, distributed systems. As organizations increasingly adopt microservices architectures, they face new challenges in service-to-service communication,…
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A service mesh is a mechanism for managing communications between the various individual services that make up modern applications in a microservice-based system. When a service mesh is applied, all inter-service communication is routed through proxies, which can be used to implement networking…
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As a developer working with microservices architectures , you may find yourself facing numerous challenges. Managing multiple services, each with its own potential points of failure, can be complex. Issues such as communication difficulties, security concerns, and lack of visibility are common in…
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Two of the main tenets of Zero Trust are encryption between services and managing the connections each service is allowed to use. Achieving this generally falls to running a service mesh in a Kubernetes cluster. Refactoring applications to run properly in Kubernetes takes time and considerable…
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The service mesh architecture pattern has become a de facto standard for microservices-based projects. In fact, from the mesh standpoint, not just microservices but all components of an application should be under its control, including databases, event processing services, etc. It's critical to…
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