Cigna's API Gateway Journey with Kong Konnect

How Cigna standardized a hybrid, multi-cloud API platform with Kong Gateway and Konnect: gateway-of-gateways, mTLS/OIDC, observability, and GitOps automation.

Cigna shares how they modernized their API platform with Kong Gateway and Kong Konnect. Learn the architecture, security patterns, and GitOps automation that enabled hybrid/multi-cloud scale and enterprise governance.

What you’ll learn:

- Gateway-of-gateways pattern (DMZ to internal mTLS), shared vs. dedicated gateways

- mTLS/OIDC, custom plugins, policy enforcement, and declarative config

- Konnect benefits: isolated control planes, control plane groups, multi-region

- Observability with HTTP Log + Prometheus; CI/CD and YAML lint/validate/dry-run