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Kong Insomnia 2022.7: Now Supporting OpenAPI 3.1, Custom Linting, and More

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 2022.7. This update brings several new capabilities into the fold with a focus on improving API quality and driving productivity. Read on to learn more about what’s new in Kong Insomnia.

Migration Options for IBM Cloud API Gateway Customers

IBM recently announced the deprecation of its Cloud API Gateway, a service used to create and manage APIs by placing a gateway in front of existing IBM Cloud endpoints. With this move, IBM Cloud Functions and IBM Cloud Foundry are no longer able to use Cloud API Gateway service for rate limiting, splitting, and authentication.

Configure SAML 2.0 Single Sign-on with Kong Enterprise

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard that allows organizations to set up single sign-on (SSO) across multiple websites and applications. SAML 2.0 is the latest standard, and was ratified in March 2005, replacing SAML 1.1. We’ll refer to SAML as meaning SAML 2.0 for the remainder of this document. SAML is mostly used as a web-based authentication mechanism as it relies on using the browser to broker the authentication flow.

What's New In Kong Enterprise 3.1?

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Enterprise 3.1. In Kong Enterprise 3.1, we build on the foundation of our plugin ecosystem by introducing five new plugins and enhancing the functionality of existing ones. These include: We’ll explore the ins and outs of each of these plugins below. But first let’s talk about why plugins are such an important part of Kong’s solutions.

Debugging Applications in Production with Service Mesh

As an application developer, have you ever had to troubleshoot an issue that only happens in production? Bugs can occur when your application gets released into the wild, and they can be extremely difficult to debug when you cannot reproduce without production data. In this blog, I am going to show you how to safely send your production data to development applications deployed using a service mesh to help you better debug and build production proof releases.

Kong announces Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), AWS Graviton Processor, and Bottlerocket OS Readiness

Kong connects APIs and microservices natively within clouds, data centers, and Kubernetes platforms using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s solutions enable digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs for legacy as well as modern architectures, including container runtimes and serverless technologies.

Chaos Engineering: Why Break Things on Purpose? #kongbuilders #kong #kongmesh

🗣️ In our next Kong Builders Livestream, Andrew Kew is joining us to tell us more about the topic of Chaos Engineering. With the move to distributed cloud architectures, it's becoming more critical to ensure that our platforms are designed for failure and behave the way we expect in these failure events.