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Dear Load Balancers,

When I started my journey into Kubernetes, you were always there for me when I needed to expose a service externally. We started small with just exposing one service, and you were dependable and easy to set up. But things have changed. My application has grown, and now the cluster has 10 services that need to be exposed externally. This has made communication difficult. I wonder what will happen when we have 50 services?

Access Control Lists with Kong

Access control is an important function in our daily lives. Access control is provided in many different realms. For example, a physical door, a software program, or an API. Access control simply means that you are controlling who/what can access something. We’re going to focus this discussion around access control for an API. Businesses benefit from providing APIs to their internal (and external) developers.

Kong for Kubernetes 0.9 Released With Encrypted Plugin Configuration and More!

Kong for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes Ingress Controller and a full-fledged edge-router which can route traffic to any destination of your choice. In addition to Ingress management, it provides enhanced security and management capabilities. With Kong, you can use Kubernetes not just for running your workloads but also for securing and monitoring connectivity between your workloads – all managed via Kubernetes manifests and CI/CD processes.

How to Automate Deployment of Microservices With an API Gateway to a Multi-Cloud Environment

In today’s enterprise computing landscape, multi-cloud organizations are quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception. By leveraging an API-first strategy with a microservice-based architecture, companies can achieve significant speed to market across multiple clouds. In order to achieve this, container orchestration and a well-designed CI/CD strategy are essential components in this journey.

Kuma 0.5 Released With Advanced TLS, Fault Injection, New GUI and More

We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 0.5! We are particularly proud for this release since it introduces about 30 new features and many improvements and – as usual – every Kuma improvement is always available on both Kubernetes and Universal (VMs) modes. This version of Kuma also ships with a new logo for the project! The new logo for Kuma signifies a new era for the project, driven by more feature maturity as well as more adoption within the community.

Introducing Insomnia Designer: An Open Source Collaborative Editor for API Design

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of a major expansion to the Insomnia family of open source developer tools — Insomnia Designer! Providing a collaborative environment for editing GraphQL and REST APIs, Insomnia Designer allows developer teams to more easily embrace spec-first approaches to software design.

Centralized Kong Management with Active Directory/LDAP

Kong Enterprise provides customers with the fastest, most scalable and flexible API management solution in the market. One of Kong’s main advantages is the ability to quickly deploy and integrate with a customer’s ecosystem of already-deployed solutions for identity management and monitoring. As customers choose Kong to drive the decentralization of their applications, it’s critical to empower teams for end-to-end deployment while maintaining security and compliance.

Observability for Your Kubernetes Microservices Using Kuma and Prometheus

A year ago, Harry Bagdi wrote an amazingly helpful blog post on observability for microservices. And by comparing titles, it becomes obvious that my blog post draws inspiration from his work. To be honest, that statement on drawing inspiration from Harry extends well beyond this one blog post – but enough about that magnificent man and more on why I chose to revisit his blog. When he published it, our company was doing an amazing job at one thing: API gateways.