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[__# The world’s most adopted
open source API gateway
Loved by developers. Trusted by enterprises.
## Lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud native API gateway
### Ridiculously fast
Ultra-lightweight, infinitely scalable NGINX engine with 50K+ transactions per second per node.
### Always flexible
Kong Gateway delivers the architectural flexibility you need to operate across any cloud, platform, or protocol.
### Deployed instantly
Configure Kong Gateway natively using an API, web UI, or declarative configuration to manage updates via CI/CD pipelines.
## Why Kong Gateway?
Built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures.
## 01/ APIOps
## Fully automated
- - Automate each phase of the API and microservices lifecycle through declarative configuration.
- - Easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to bring applications online faster.
## 02/ Installation Options
## Deployment agnostic
- - Run Kong Gateway in any environment, platform, and implementation pattern — from on-prem to cloud, Kubernetes, and serverless
- - Flexibility to configure Kong Gateway with or without database, and in hybrid or cloud-hosted modes.
## 03/ Plugins
## Highly extensible
- - Exercise granular control over your API traffic with out-of-the-box security, authentication, transformation, and analytics plugins.
- - Easily extend Kong Gateway to support unique use cases with custom plugins via Kong's Plugin Development Kit.
## 04/ Kubernetes Ingress Controller
## Kubernetes native
- - Configure Kong Gateway the same way as Kubernetes with Kong Ingress Controller.
- - Implement traffic management, transformations, and observability across Kubernetes clusters with zero downtime.
## 05/ Flexible policy design and execution
## Leverage the Gateway for data orchestration and transformation
- - Design flexible, granular policy flows
- - Drive internal auth, API mashing, and more data transformation use cases
## Kong Gateway propels enterprise success
## Pexa
Kong is a natural fit for PEXA embarking on the modernization journey. It ticks all the boxes — scalability, security, and self-service — which takes the hassle of managing APIs
Simon Vallegra
- General Manager of Technology Operations and Digital Delivery
30%
Reduction in costs
## Australia Post
With Kong, we’ve taken a big leap forward in our ability to reduce operational overhead while efficiently scaling to support the increase in traffic requests from our rapidly growing customer base.
Neha Jaiswal
- Product Manager at Australia Post, API Platform & Central Services
Hours
Developer
onboarding reduced
from days to hours
## Mercedes Benz
Mercedes-Benz decided to focus on Kong as their recommended choice because it's suitable for both small and large instances providing simple configuration, operation and monitoring.
Benjamin Bertow
- Senior Technical Lead and Product Owner
1,500+
APIs seamlessly
managed
## Optum
Kong has produced an 85% reduction in gateway overhead compared to our previous proprietary solution, in addition to being 90% more resource efficient.
Ross Sbriscia
- Lead Software Engineer at UnitedHealth Group
85%
Reduction
operational overhead
## Resources
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