Service mesh expert Cody De Arkland explains the differences between an API gateway and service mesh and how they work together. An API gateway helps companies offer APIs “as a product” to internal or external clients/users via a centralized ingress point. They can also govern and control how they are being exposed and onboarded via a full lifecycle APIM platform. API gateways are commonly used when different applications need to talk to each other and create an abstraction layer between the clients and the underlying APIs.

In this episode of Kong Builders, Kong Developer Advocate Viktor Gamov shows how to deploy and manage service connectivity with Kong Konnect and Kubernetes. We’ll deploy an application in Kubernetes, configure a runtime through Konnect and deploy the runtime in Kubernetes.

In our fourth Kong and Okta tutorial, we will implement a basic access control policy based on Okta's groups and planes.

Lens, the Kubernetes IDE, is an open source Kubernetes dashboard that enables users to easily see what objects are running in their cluster and interact with them. In that way, it has been helping to take some of the pain out of Kubernetes operations and development, but now it includes features specifically aimed at those of us with large environments.

Viktor Gamov, a principal developer advocate at Kong, explains how to quickly enable external access to your applications that run in Kubernetes using the Kong Ingress Controller.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to get to the next level of API documentation using Kong Developer Portal with GraphQL. In my example, I’ll be using Kong Konnect Enterprise Version 2.4, but the version number does not really matter. I also configured my workspace with one service that points to a Star Wars API endpoint with a GraphQL interface (swapi-graphql.netlify.com). We’ll also be using an open source tool called GraphiQL for interactive documentation of a GraphQL endpoint. With GraphiQL, we’ll see requests, responses and automated generation of documentation based on the endpoint.

Kong Builders is a new livestream series that takes a hands-on, practitioner-focused approach to exploring Kong's tools - namely Kuma and Kong Mesh. We'll build from the ground up - teaching how service mesh works from its foundations, and debugging/troubleshooting as we run into problems.