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Enterprise-grade service mesh for
development and governance

Connect, manage, and secure workloads across any environment and platform. Reduce developer time to value by managing boilerplate work for retries, service-to-service encryption, chaos engineering and service discovery.

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Modern environments get complicated.
Kong simplifies things.

Secure

Apply consistent security standards and governance across all services and locations from a single control plane.

Resilient

Achieve uptime goals with intelligent failover and deep observability.

Flexible

Deploy confidently and efficiently with a single solution anywhere you want to run.

Why Kong Mesh?

Kong Mesh simplifies cross-zone connectivity, security, observability, and compliance for Platform Operators, and reduces time to value for your developers.

01/ Simplicity

More time developing, less worrying about infrastructure

  • Use Mesh features to handle retry logic, observability and chaos engineering at the platform layer.
  • Seamlessly integrate with CI/CD pipelines and eliminate drift with declarative configuration
  • Speed up time to value with a mesh built to operate everywhere from day one.

02/ Flexibility

Deploy microservices confidently

  • Consistently apply authentication, API security, and traffic control policies across all services in one-click.
  • Deploy Kong Mesh anywhere: on Kubernetes, in the cloud, on-premises, with containers or on virtual machines.
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03/ Resiliency

Reduce complexity

  • Gain one-click control across service mesh environments with out-of-the-box policies for connectivity, observability, and security.
  • Easily install and manage through Kong Konnect — the industry’s first unified SaaS control plane.
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04/ Resilient

Ensure continuity

  • Speed up reliability testing with a Circuit Breaker policy to test failures in a controlled manner.
  • Reduce risk when you enable locality aware routing to route traffic effortlessly across multiple Kubernetes clusters or environments and roll out upgrades without disruption. 
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05/ Security

Zero-trust security across all Mesh deployments

  • Achieve Zero Trust by default with authentication, authorization, and encryption technologies with a couple of clicks or a single command line entry. 
  • Get time back and reduce errors with automated security deployments and updates. Eliminate tedious, error-prone manual tasks by leveraging built-in configuration management.
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06/ Observability

Gain real-time visibility into all services

  • Gain deep insights into application usability with metrics such as error rate and latency for each service.
  • Improve your security posture with a centralized management plane that aids in the secure deployment, timely audit, and application of security updates.
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Customers on Kong Mesh

[With Kong] we created a scalable, highly reliable platform for our web applications that has a security-first mindset.

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We chose Kong Mesh because we needed a solution that allows our customers to support Kubernetes and virtual machines, while providing an easier path to migrating between the two.

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Chief Executive Officer
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...Kong Mesh is a critical aspect of our architecture, for both zero-trust security and observability and monitoring.

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