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This article explores Kong API Gateway’s support for load balancing, upstreams, and targets, as well as its active and passive health check capabilities. …

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This article explores the timer-related challenges that Kong production environments commonly face and provides effective strategies to mitigate these issues, ensuring a reliable and efficient API Gateway operation. Introduction to OpenResty timer OpenResty is a web platform that includes a modified version of the Nginx web server, with additional features…

Here’s an example kong.yaml file that defines a service, a route with plugins, and a consumer: --- services: - name: example-service url: http://httpbin.org routes: - name: example-route service: example-service paths: - /get plugins: - name: key-auth - name: rate-limiting config…

Kong is platform agnostic API Gateway and it can be deployed on VMs, Docker and Kubernetes. And also, on any Cloud-hosted infrastructure. In this post, we will explore the option of deploying Kong on Docker with Postgres Database along with, an Enterprise Docker image tagged as kong/kong-gateway:3.2.x.x . The Enterprise…

This document discusses using istio and kong in the same kubernetes cluster. We will discuss about how istio service mesh is different from kubernetes, what are the advantages and shortcoming of istio and how kong is resolving them so that we can have a more secure service to service communication…

· Intro ∘ Problem ∘ Objective · Solution ∘ Create OAuth 2.0 Credentials ∘ Create Dockerized Kong Instance with Custom Plugin ∘ Create Declarative Configuration File ∘ Create docker-compose File ∘ Improving Security · Conclusion Intro Problem Kong API Gateway has an official OpenID Connect plugin, but it’s only available on the…

Why do we need Kong? — The last decade of the tech industry has been dominated by the move towards microservices i.e. small, loosely coupled applications with a single purpose. The main advantages of these are faster development cycles, easier maintenance, and scalability. Therefore, rather than having one big monolith application for online banking, we should…

If you are new to the Kong gateway or custom plugin development, please follow the guide at https://konghq.com/blog/custom-lua-plugin-kong-gateway. In a gist, Lua plugins are a type of plugin for Kong Gateway that allow you to execute Lua scripts as part of the request/response flow. In addition, these plugins will enable…