The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Kuma is an open source, CNCF service mesh that supports every environment, including Kubernetes and virtual machines. In this Kuma service mesh tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to get started. [iframe loading="lazy" width="890" height="560" src=""…
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As a developer, your company hired you to build incredible products that focus on your users' and customers' needs. Yet, in the age of microservices , producing the best products relies heavily on efficient cloud service connectivity. For example, an eCommerce marketplace is more than a front-end…
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After having announced Kuma 1.0 GA with over 70+ new features and improvements (and Kuma 1.0.1 this week ), we are finally happy to announce a new major version of Kong Mesh that includes all the latest Kuma features – and more – in a fully supported enterprise package. With Kong Mesh 1.1 we…
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We are happy to announce the general availability of Kong Mesh 1.0! Kong Mesh is Kong’s first enterprise service mesh built on top of Kuma and Envoy that organizations can use to deploy a modern mesh across every application — running on both Kubernetes and VMs — and on every cloud or…
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In his most recent blog post, Marco Palladino, our CTO and co-founder, went over the difference between API gateways and service mesh . I highly recommend reading his blog post to see how API management and service mesh are complementary patterns for different use cases, but to summarize in his…
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We are excited to announce the release of a new open source project, Kuma - a modern, universal control plane for service mesh! Kuma is based on Envoy, a powerful proxy designed for cloud native applications. Envoy has become the de-facto industry sidecar proxy, with service mesh becoming an…
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Over the past few months, you may have noticed the explosion of industry chatter and articles surrounding service mesh and the future of software architecture. These discussions have been highly polarizing, with tribes forming around specific vendors. While this partisan trend is to be expected,…
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