Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

👋 Hello, Kong Builders! We are back with another insightful stream with your favorite host, Viktor Gamov. Join us in diving head-first into Service Mesh Observability and OpenTelemetry. 🌐🔎 In this livestream, we're honing in on observability, with OpenTelemetry. 📈📋 Observability plays a vital role in comprehending and managing microservices, enabling us to effectively diagnose and resolve system issues and gain real-time insights into our system's behavior.

Join Manjiri Tapaswi (Senior Software Engineer, Konnect at Kong) for a ride around your Konnect organization’s administrative management! Learn how to secure and govern your environment by setting up Teams and Roles, or enable SSO through an external authenticator. We’ll go over how to leverage System Accounts for hardening your automation and integrations. Tune up your security risks monitoring, compliance maintenance, and responding to potential security incidents when they occur, by setting up and tracking Audit Logs.

🚀 Join us live to learn about how to implement authentication and authorization for GraphQL APIs using OIDC and OPA with Konnect! 🤝 This tutorial focuses on the solution that can solve for the Authentication and Authorization concerns at the gateway layer. We'll first authenticate users, and if authenticated, then the user’s fine-grain permissions will be evaluated to determine if the user has permission to run the incoming GraphQL request (whether the request is nested or using query variables).

In this episode of Kongcast, Kaitlyn talks with Danielle Dias, Software Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com, about how her team creates a seamless customer experience by using Kong Gateway for rate limiting, monitoring, alerting, and more.

Are you running Kong Gateway below 3.0 and need help upgrading and what to look out for? Then this presentation is for you! In this talk, Andrew Kew (Senior Technical Account Manager & Field Engineer at Kong) will discuss a few upgrade strategies from Kong Gateway 2.x to 3.x to ensure a zero downtime and smooth upgrade. Next to that, you will learn what to look out for when upgrading to 3.x. At the end of the presentation, Andrew will talk through some of the new features in Kong Gateway 3.0.

There are lots of iconic duos out there. Batman and Robin, Jelly and Ice Cream, and now, Kong and Kubernetes. Join Michael as he shows what Kong Ingress Controller can do for you. We’ll take a look at how to secure your services with the KongPlugin CRD, how to use the Kubernetes events system to help debug when things go wrong, and we’ll even take a sneak peek at the upcoming Kubernetes Gateway API and how you can start using it today.

Kong plugins are the real muscle behind the Kong ecosystem, giving you the power to implement API gateway policies in a plug and play fashion. In this session, we will deep dive into the Kong plugin architecture, basics around plugin development, testing, and automated delivery. You will have the opportunity to learn about different plugin phases during an API request, unit testing, and installation of a plugin in Kong Gateway.

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 1: Crawl Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Partner Developer Danny Freese Welcome to the "Crawl" stage of our Cloud Migration Journey! In this tutorial, we will show you how to de-risk and lift-and-shift your connections using Kong Mesh and #Konnect during a migration to the cloud. The "Crawl" stage is the first phase of our 3-phased approach, and it aims to deploy the monolith and Konnect runtime instance, and onboard the monolith to Konnect.

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 2: Walk Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Partner Developer Danny Freese Welcome to the "Walk" stage of the Cloud Migration Journey, where we will take you through the second phase of the migration process. In this stage, we will show you how to de-risk and lift-and-shift your connections during the migration process to the cloud using Konnect and Kong Mesh.