Kong

Product Overview

Kong is an open-source microservice API gateway and platform that enables businesses to securely manage and orchestrate their APIs in a scalable and efficient manner. As one of the world's most popular open-source projects, Kong provides a highly customizable and extensible architecture that supports a wide range of use cases, from simple API routing and load balancing to advanced AI-powered traffic management and security.

Main Features

Kong offers a robust set of features that make it an ideal choice for building scalable and secure APIs. Some of the key features include:

• Advanced routing, load balancing, and health checking
• Authentication and authorization using various methods such as JWT, basic auth, OAuth, ACLs, and more
• Proxy, SSL/TLS termination, and connectivity support for L4 or L7 traffic
• Plugins for enforcing traffic controls, rate limiting, request/response transformations, logging, monitoring, and more
• Support for AI-powered traffic management, including advanced AI prompt engineering, AI observability, and AI security
• Sophisticated deployment models, such as Declarative Databaseless Deployment and Hybrid Deployment (control plane/data plane separation)
• Native ingress controller support for serving Kubernetes

In addition to these features, Kong also provides a rich ecosystem of plugins that can be used to extend the functionality of the gateway. The Plugin Hub is where you can find many of these community-developed plugins, as well as learn how to develop your own custom plugins using Lua, Go, or JavaScript.