Kong Online Meetups
Kong’s Online Meetups are a place to learn about technologies within the Kong open source ecosystem. This interactive forum will give you the chance to ask our engineers questions and get ramped up on information relevant to your Kong journey.
The Role of API Gateways in an Evolving Distributed World 05/12/2020
The world is changing and so is the way we work as we become increasingly distributed. We can’t apply old processes to new environments. Much like having to work from…
How to Build Kong Clusters in AWS with Terraform 03/10/2020
kong-terraform-aws is a Terraform module for building Kong clusters in AWS. Leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform and minimal requirements and configuration, you are minutes away from having a Kong cluster…
Intro to Kuma – A Guide to Modernizing Your Mesh 02/25/2020
Service Mesh is the future of application connectivity. It delivers immediate value to any architecture by increasing the security, reliability and observability of our application traffic. At the same time…
Learning Service Mesh From Scratch: from 0 to 100 02/12/2020
Service Mesh is the future of application connectivity. It delivers immediate value to any architecture by increasing the security, reliability and observability of our application traffic. At the same time…
Kong Gateway 2.0 Deep Dive 02/11/2020
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 2.0. With this release the technology will become more platform-agnostic to deploy it across on-premises and the cloud (Hybrid…
Kong for Kubernetes 0.7 01/14/2020
This week, we announced the latest release of Kong for Kubernetes! Features include encrypted credentials, mutual authentication using TLS, native gRPC routing, performance improvements among other things. With this release,…
Intro to Insomnia 12/10/2019
Insomnia is an open source GraphQL and REST client aimed at making testing and debugging APIs easier. In October, we announced that we welcomed Insomnia to the team at Kong…
Kong Gateway 2.0 – Sneak Peek 11/12/2019
At Kong Summit, we announced the Alpha release of Kong Gateway 2.0. With this release, we are especially excited to address some of the most common requests from our community,…
Kuma 09/18/2019
In this call, we demo Kong’s newest open source project – Kuma, a modern, universal control plane for service mesh.
Kong Community Programs 07/09/2019
In this call, we talk about Kong Community programs, where we’re at and where we’re headed, including an open forum for feedback and discussion from the community.
decK Demo and Open Forum 06/11/2019
In our June Community Call, Kong engineer Harry Bagdi demos decK, a tool to manage Kong’s configuration in a distributed manner. After, we’ll facilitate an open forum for community members…
Kong 1.2 and 1.3 Upcoming Releases 05/14/2019
Kong Principal Engineer Thibault Charbonnier presented and demo’d upcoming features to be released in Kong 1.2 and 1.3. Thibault covered performance improvements, introduced newly open sourced plugins, and announced GRCP…
Healthcare Gateway Modernization: Optum’s Journey With Kong 04/09/2019
In this call Optum talked about their journey to overhaul their API technology using Kong. They explained their implementation challenges and priorities considered when choosing Kong. The Optum team also…
Mocking APIs with Kong and API Fortress 02/12/2019
In this call API Fortress talked about mocking APIs with Kong and API Fortress. You might want to mock APIs to build tests against them before the services are ready,…
Kubernetes service mesh and 1.0 settings 01/08/2019
During this call, Colin Hutchinson demonstrated the work in progress on a repo to deploy Kong on Kubernetes, as a service mesh. We heard from Aapo Talvensaari about the settings available…
Service Mesh Demo 12/04/2018
Cooper Marcus and James Callahan gave us a great demonstration about how Kong works when deployed as a service mesh. They discussed what service mesh means in Kong parlance, and…
Terraform, Heroku, 1.0 GA update 11/13/2018
This month we had demos from two community members. Dennis Kelly showed off the Terraform module that he built to deploy Kong. Mars Hall demonstrated how to deploy Kong on Heroku.…
Okta Plugin & Docs Contribution 10/16/2018
This month Tom Smith of Okta showed us how to secure APIs with Kong and Okta, and Cooper Marcus gave us a great primer on how to contribute to the documentation…
Kong Spec Expose Plugin 09/25/2018
During this call, Jeremy Justus demonstrated the Kong Spec Expose Plugin built by Optum. We talked about the announcements at Kong Summit, and Thibault discussed his take on the changes…