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March 2023

Kong Enterprise & Kong Konnect with Amazon VPC Lattice

At Kong, we’re always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Kong API management platforms, Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect, are validated integrations with Amazon VPC Lattice.

Role Based Access Control with Kong Enterprise

Role Based Access Control with Kong Enterprise Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. In this video, Ahmed Koshok demonstrates how to empower teams for end-to-end delivery. With the increasing need for decentralization, it's essential to have a platform that enables you to manage your apps and services effectively. Kong Enterprise offers a Role-Based Access Control feature that ensures secure and reliable access to your apps and services.

What's new in Kong Ingress Controller 2.9 - Gateway Discovery #kubernetes #ingress #kic

In this tutorial, we'll dive into the seamless integration of dynamic scaling and instance discovery with KIC 2.9! Today’s release allows running the Ingress Controller and the Kong Gateway data planes separately in different pods. This feature enables KIC to scale cost-effectively as it removes the overhead of running the KIC sidecar with every single Gateway instance. Besides memory savings, users should also see a significant decrease in CPU usage.

What's New in Kong Ingress Controller 2.9?

We’re happy to announce the release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.9, in which we’ve taken significant steps towards solution extensibility, deployment flexibility, and lowering the cost of ownership. KIC now offers a number of features that we think you’ll be excited about: Here are the details about each of these features.

From Kinesis to Kafka

At the beginning of 2021, a brand new data team was assembled to build a real-time data platform for Kong’s SaaS platform, Konnect. Our mission is to provide top-notch real-time API analytics features for Konnect customers. V1 platform architecture The initial backend consisted of three main components: an ingestion service to handle incoming telemetry requests, an intermediate message queue, and a real-time OLAP data storage.

GraphQL Authorization at the API Gateway with Kong Konnect and OPA

In this blog we are going to learn about the technical challenges behind solving GraphQL authorization and how many organizations resolve it today. Then discuss how a Kong / OPA integration can help drive security standards in this space and bring some parity with REST API solutions. Last, we will end with a quick tutorial.

Implementing a Hybrid Kong Konnect Data Plane in Amazon ECS

Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane, totally based on Kong Gateway, can be deployed across multiple environments including VMs, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Introducing Kong Enterprise 2.8 Long Term Support

Kong is proud to announce our first-ever Long Term Support (LTS) version of Kong Enterprise. Kong Enterprise 2.8 LTS will be supported up to March 25, 2025. LTS is an industry term for a software release that is supported for a longer period of time than other releases. LTS versions are popular because once users are on an LTS version, they can rest assured that this version will continue to receive technical support and security updates during the LTS period.

What's New in Kong Gateway 3.2 and Kong Ingress Controller 2.9

Join us for our March User Call where we will show you all new features and updates in Kong Gateway 3.2 and Kong Ingress Controller 2.9. Tom Brightbill (Group Product Manager) will show you all new and exciting updates in Kong Gateway 3.2. In the new release, you will find new key functionality for everyone who operates Kong Enterprise in a hybrid environment, which further enhances its reliability.

Building a Cloud Agnostic API Platform - Design and Best Practices

In this episode of our Tech Talk series, Siddharth Saikumar (Cloud Security Engineering, Vanguard) and Ragunath Sudalaimuthu (Lead Software Engineer, Lowe’s) will show us design and best practices for building a cloud agnostic API platform. Digital modernization accelerated the API ecosystem in every organization. A successful API strategy is paramount to an organization’s growth trajectory.

Multi-Tenancy and Kong: An Architectural Guide

Engineering organizations building modern API-driven systems have different priorities when it comes to their API management solution. These priorities will drive design decisions about the deployment of various components for API gateways. Some organizations are looking to optimize compute resource utilization, helping to control costs or reduce operational toil.

How and Why to Migrate from Kong Open Source to Kong Konnect

Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while upgrading to an Enterprise-class feature set and support options.