Supercharge your Istio clusters with the leading API gateway
With Kong Gateway and Istio's native integration we can expose Istio services at the edge and to other teams with a full lifecycle APIM solution.
By exposing services via Kong’s native Istio integration, we can expose APIs via a full lifecycle APIM solution ready to scale.
Secure, control and expose Istio services via 100+ Kong plugins, publish them in the service catalog and developer portal, at the edge or internally.
By supercharging the Istio Gateway with Kong, we cover all the gaps when exposing services, making our teams more comfortable to adopt Istio.
MS3 Selects Kong Mesh to Power its Next-Generation Integration Platform
Being able to inject end-to-end security and tracing without introducing performance issues is huge for our customers. With Kong Mesh and Kong, we know that our customers will get a flexible, high-performance solution for all their needs, now and in the future.
Yahoo! Japan - Looking Beyond the API Platform
With Kong, we knew that we would get something that would work perfectly with our technology today and set us up for where we want to go. Kong allows us to deploy on-premise, easily integrates with all the technologies we use across the company and gives us the flexibility we want to avoid vendor lock-in.
Verifone Trusts Kong for its Global, Omnichannel Payments Solution
Since all regional payment systems were previously monoliths exposing APIs separately, the API gateway was a greenfield project for Verifone. "In moving to microservices, we knew we needed an API gateway.
Sky Italia modernized and transformed into an APIOps-led organization with Kong Enterprise
By using Kong Enterprise, we have been able to build a 360° API lifecycle management platform that has allowed Sky Italia to improve performance and availability while reducing our deployment time. Embracing an API-based model has allowed us to make a deep cultural change, operating according to a “product-driven” pattern and getting closer to our end customer needs
Every Kong plugin now available on Istio
Automatically collect metrics, traces, and logs for every service in the service mesh without any code change in the applications.
- 10+ AuthN/Z security plugins, including OIDC, OAuth and OPA.
- 15+ traffic control plugins, like ACL, rate limiting and caching.
- 10+ observability plugins, like Datadog, Splunk and ELK.
- Request and response transformations, format converters.
- Native Kafka, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP and WS support.
- Natively Multi-cluster and multi-cloud for every API.
API developer portal, catalogs and analytics
With Kong running as the ingress gateway for Istio, we can create developer portals for our APIs, monitor usage and detect anomalies in our traffic.
- Fully customizable Developer Portal.
- List Istio services in browsable service catalogs.
- Pluggable developer onboarding with OIDC and more.
- Visualize API usage across Istio services with Kong Vitals.
Strong integration and partnership
The full lifecycle API management features that Kong brings to every Istio cluster - a Gartner MQ leader - accelerates Istio adoption across the organization.
- Shorter time to market for APIs and services deployed Istio.
- Support for non-Istio workloads in addition to Istio’s.
- Support for Kubernetes and VMs.
- Enterprise support with SLAs, 24/7/365, worldwide.
Secure and Govern APIs
Empower teams to provide security, governance and compliance.
Questions about breaking your monolith down into smaller parts?
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