The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Kong connects APIs and microservices natively within clouds, data centers, and Kubernetes platforms using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong's solutions enable digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs for legacy…
Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers' the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We've seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the…
One of the most critical requirements for an Application Modernization project is to support workloads running on multiple platforms. In fact, such projects naturally include in their transformation process migrating workloads approach using the hybrid model. Another typical technical decision that…
Open Banking is a key digital transformation initiative in many countries. Its aim is to provide end users with more control of their financial data and to enable companies involved in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) to quickly offer new services. The Kong-AWS partnership provides…
We are happy to announce the latest release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma, which is packed with features and improvements. Kong Mesh 1.7 is focused on security and stability, as it allows to better integrate with AWS thanks to a native AWS ACM integration to store CA certificates while implementing…
From the modern application platform perspective, products should allow architects and DevOps teams to support dynamic topologies. That means a multi-platform capability is required but not sufficient. In fact, for several reasons, companies are looking for hybrid deployments to run their…
After you've built your microservices -backed application, it's time to deploy and connect them. Luckily, there are many cloud providers to choose from, and you can even mix and match. Many organizations, like Australia Post , are taking the mix-and-match approach, embracing a multi-cloud…
Modern microservices -based architectures require companies to change not just the way they build applications but also how to deploy them. Basically, the new microservices foundation should be based on two main pillars: hybrid deployments and Kubernetes orchestrator . With the complete separation…
For the DevOps-averse developer, lambdas are heaven. They can focus on writing self-contained and modularized pieces of code, deploying these functions for on-demand execution without being concerned about resource management or infrastructure. Lambda execution , however, can be tricky. Serverless…
Apps of today differ from those of the past. Evolving organizations like Cargill need to scale quickly to support millions of users, have global availability, manage petabytes or more of data and respond in milliseconds. That's why modern apps now leverage API automation. This article will dive…
One of the most powerful capabilities provided by Kong Konnect API Cloud Platform is the support for Hybrid deployments. In other words, it implements distributed API Gateway Clusters with multiple instances running on several environments at the same time. Moreover, Kong Enterprise provides a new…
We created the Terraform API gateway module to help you follow DevOps best practices while implementing Kong using infrastructure as code (IaC). Terraform is an open source tool that allows you to implement IaC using a declarative declaration definition. This Terraform module is the reference…
In support of our partnership with AWS, we're re-examining how some of our major customers today are using Kong with AWS. To this end, let's look at our popular case study with Cargill. For over 150 years, Cargill has been on a mission to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable…
At Kong, we leverage many tools to protect our services and customers. Terraform from HashiCorp allows us to automate the process with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Another important tool is Amazon Web Services (AWS) GuardDuty , a continuous monitoring service for security threat detection in your…
Anaheim, Amsterdam, Australia, oh my! The Kong team is packing our bags and hitting the road for AWS Global Summits around the world over the next few months. At each free event, the cloud computing community gathers to discuss AWS core topics and software trends. Visit our booth for riveting…