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Gateway to the Future: A Brief History of Kubernetes Ingress

Join Viktor Gamov, a Principal Developer Advocate with Kong, as he navigates the evolution of Kubernetes Ingress. Starting with the basics, he’ll explain how Ingress is pivotal in managing external access to services within a Kubernetes cluster through HTTP and HTTPS routes. In this talk, Viktor will also address its limitations – the challenge of managing multiple Ingress resources, inconsistencies across different controllers, and inherent limitations in handling non-L7 protocols like TCP and UDP.

How to Fix a SIGILL Kong Crash on Arm64

Kong will crash on the ARM64 platform (the machine with Mac M1/M2 chips or any ARM64 platform). The error message shows the crash is triggered by the SIGILL signal, which means there is an illegal instruction in the Kong binary code. And it turns out to be caused by an error in the LuaJIT ARM64 JIT compiler. This post records how the error is found and fixed.

API Infrastructure is Mission Critical - and Increasingly Under Attack

APIs have revolutionized every industry. They fuel digital transformation and power the web, making up more than 83% of global internet traffic. And API adoption will only grow, with AI, Web3, and decentralization only further driving API usage and integration. But these sometimes-overlooked enablers of connectivity and communication present a serious security challenge: APIs are increasingly in the crosshairs of cyber-attackers.

Leveraging Mesh Global Rate Limit Policy in Kong Mesh 2.3

In today’s interconnected and dynamic world of microservices, ensuring optimal traffic management and protection against malicious attacks are critical. Rate limiting, a popular mechanism for controlling request flow, gets more effortless with the introduction of Global Rate Limiting in Kong Mesh. In this blog post, we’ll explore this exciting new feature and its benefits in detail.

Enhancing APIOps and Federated API Management with decK 1.24

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a significant milestone in our journey to provide the best possible developer experience to our Kong user community. We have added a host of new functionality to decK, our declarative management tool for Kong Gateway. These new functions enhance API lifecycle automation (APIOps) capabilities and provide a smoother path to federated API management. These features are now available to everyone and can be found in decK 1.24.0.

Managing Kong Routes in Multi-Cloud Environments

Join Frederik Nakstad and Adelina Simion from Form3 to learn how they use the Kong Ingress Controller to manage service routes on Form3’s multi-cloud platform. You’ll get an overview of Form3’s platform and environment configuration and how they moved from a legacy ECS solution to running Kong in a Kubernetes-native way with the Kong Ingress Controller. This approach provides useful abstractions and makes it easier for the Form3 service teams to configure routes.