Canary Deployment in 5 Minutes with Service Mesh
Welcome to our second hands-on Kuma guide! The first one walked you through securing your application with mTLS using Kuma. Today, this guide will walk you through Kuma’s new L4 traffic routing rules....
View ArticleInfographic: What Technology Leaders Need to Know About Digital Innovation in...
We surveyed 200 senior technology decision makers in the U.S., including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of IT, IT directors/architects and software engineers/developers from organizations across a range of...
View Article2019 Year in Review – Thank You to Our Customers, Community and Partners
As I look back at 2019 and all the amazing things we’ve achieved as a team, it was a big year for us at Kong. We’ve grown tremendously in just the past year alone, doubling to more than 160 employees,...
View ArticleKong for Kubernetes 0.7 Released!
Kong for Kubernetes (Kong for K8s) is a Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on the popular Kong Gateway open source project. Kong for K8s is fully Kubernetes Native and provides enhanced API management...
View ArticleDeploying Service Mesh on Virtual Machines in 5 Minutes
Welcome to another hands-on Kuma guide! In the first guide, I walked you through securing an application using Kuma in a Kubernetes deployment. Since Kuma is platform-agnostic, I wanted to write a...
View ArticleMicroservices: An Enterprise Software Sea Change
As some of you already know, I have been following the shift towards microservices adoption for a while now. For the longest time, when the industry thought of the transition to microservices, they...
View ArticleKuma 0.3.2 Released with Kong Gateway Support, Prometheus Metrics and GUI...
Happy New Year! To kick off 2020, we’re proud to announce Kuma’s 0.3.2 release that includes long, anticipated features. The most prominent one is Kong Gateway support for ingress into your Kuma mesh....
View ArticleKong Gateway 2.0 GA!
After a full year of development since our last major open source release, we are proud to announce the next chapter of our flagship open-source API gateway — Kong Gateway 2.0 is General Available!...
View ArticleURL Rewriting in Kong
A common requirement for APIs is to rewrite the published URL to a different URL for the upstream service’s endpoint. For example, due to legacy reasons, your upstream endpoint may have a base URI like...
View ArticleInfrastructure as Code without Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a powerful process – replacing manual, error prone and expensive operations with automated, consistent and quick provisioning of resources. In many cases, IaC is...
View ArticleThe Difference Between API Gateways and Service Mesh
Why API Management and Service Mesh are Complementary Patterns for Different Use Cases Note: The goal of this piece is to provide a cheat sheet that guides the architect in deciding when to use an API...
View ArticleKuma 0.4 Released With L7 Tracing + Grafana Dashboards!
We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 0.4! This is a major release focused on significantly better observability capabilities that also includes many new features and improvements across the...
View ArticleSupporting Legacy Web Services With Kong
Let’s admit it – web services (SOAP) are here to stay for a few more years, and maybe for a long time in some places where there is no business incentive to rebuild them. However, with a decline in new...
View ArticleKong Partners with Vertigo to Accelerate Digital Transformation in Latin America
We’re excited to partner with Vertigo Tecnologia, experts in digital transformation, to help companies in Latin America accelerate their transition to microservices and other emerging architectures —...
View ArticleHow to Secure APIs and Services Using OpenID Connect
A modern API gateway like Kong enables organizations to achieve some use cases much more easily than traditional gateways. The reason is older, traditional gateways try to provide as many features as...
View ArticleExposing Kuma Service Mesh Using Kong API Gateway
In his most recent blog post, Marco Palladino, our CTO and co-founder, went over the difference between API gateways and service mesh. I highly recommend reading his blog post to see how API management...
View ArticleProtect Your Applications With Cleafy Plugin for Kong
When protecting your online services, the weakest link is represented by the endpoints – that is, by the end-user devices running web or mobile applications or by external systems leveraging open APIs....
View ArticleKong for Kubernetes 0.8 Released!
Kong for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on the Kong Gateway open source project. Kong for K8s is fully Kubernetes-native and provides enhanced API management capabilities. From an...
View ArticleKong Recognized as a Great Place to Work®!
We are so excited to share that Kong has been certified as a Great Place to Work®! We recognize our certification as a huge achievement for us, as it reflects our commitment to putting people first by...
View ArticleKongers Unite to Support Australian Wildfire Recovery
It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been one of the most difficult years many of us have ever experienced. With the latest COVID-19 crisis bringing the world to its knees, I am once...
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