Corporations are diverse. Consequently, the software needed to support business units tends to vary. In fact, more than eight out of 10 corporations now run multiple cloud solutions, according to Forrester Research. With recent outages across major cloud providers making news and impacting millions of customers, organizations are rightfully assessing how a multi-cloud approach can mitigate downtime risk. In this new environment, one challenge is managing the different cloud solutions.

We’re pleased to announce that our first release in the 1.4 series is out! Our engineering team and awesome community members added numerous new features, improvements and fixes in this release. Read below on the most relevant changes in Kong Gateway 1.4 and how you can make the most of these additions. Please refer to the Changelog for complete details and the Upgrade Path for instructions on how to upgrade from previous Kong versions.

We’re proud to announce a new partnership with LimePoint, an Australian API and integration service provider, through our Go-to-Market (GTM) Partner Program! Together, Kong and LimePoint will help Australian organizations accelerate their transition to microservices, service mesh and other modern architectures with Kong Enterprise.

It was an exciting journey in coming together with our community last week at Kong Summit 2019. I want to take a moment to appreciate the experience we shared, our major product announcements, and what all this means for the future of Kong and building software. Kong Summit was an amazing, energetic 48 hours that brought together more than 500 attendees from 28 countries, representing our open source users and enterprise customers, as well as numerous cloud native industry leaders.

Kong Gateway 2.0 takes all the work we put into creating Kong and builds on it to create a truly stable, battle-tested API gateway that is stable under extreme performance conditions and a diverse array of architectures and implementations. With this release, we are especially excited to address some of the most common requests from our community, as well as lay the foundation for continued growth and innovation within our open source platform. Read on below to check out the new capabilities.

Today we are excited to welcome Insomnia to the team at Kong! Insomnia has been on our radar at Kong for quite some time. I was first introduced to Insomnia and Greg in the early days of the project, and I am proud to have been one of the earliest supporters. From the first, I knew that Insomnia was solving a real problem for developers, and it has been amazing to see the community of contributors grow as more and more developers adopt Insomnia to make testing and debugging APIs easier.

Today we’re thrilled to announce a brand new product area for Kong – Kong Studio, an integrated design and test environment for Kong Enterprise customers. We are excited to make the leap in extending our service control platform to include pre-production use cases focused on improving the way that customers build and test their microservices and APIs.

At last year’s Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve taken the service control platform vision one step further to enable organizations worldwide to manage and optimize the entire service lifecycle.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Kong Ingress Controller 0.6! This release builds on the previous releases and unlocks integrations and features, including the Admission Controller, integration with Kuma and Istio, and support for Kustomize native configuration management.

As outlined in a previous article on security challenges for microservices, DevOps are getting more widely distributed, spread thin, and forced to plan for higher levels of interactivity as well as evolving national security “backdoor” measures. Microservices, born from a still-emerging DevOps laboratory environment, can be deployed anywhere: on-prem, in the public cloud, or a hybrid implementation.