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Over the past few years, Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for container orchestration. However, despite its broad-scale adoption, Kubernetes ingress solutions have to date failed to provide a comprehensive solution for end-to-end API management and traffic control for all applications deployed on a cluster. Similarly, dedicated Kubernetes ingress solutions lack the comprehensive security capabilities and support needed within enterprise organizations.

There are clear advantages to microservices, such as improvements in performance, ease of deployment and scalability. Some characteristics of a microservices architecture can also support maintaining a monolithic architecture.

Your organization is embracing microservices and distributed architectures. Whether you are just beginning your journey to microservices or are well-versed in building cloud native applications, it is all too common to run into challenges that inhibit your progress.

The widespread adoption of containers and the explosion of microservices mean all software architectures are destined to become decentralized. Destination: Decentralization is a free digital event about transitioning from "I know how to build and run applications" to "I know how to build and run an entire decentralized architecture." In a world where the unexpected happens, it is increasingly important to take a holistic rather than ad hoc approach to designing and governing distributed systems. Join us for virtual lectures and hands-on labs, where we explore how to thrive in this new landscape.

With all your mission-critical services now becoming remote digital services, it's more important than ever to reduce the risk of breaches and service outages due to security incidents. But in a Kubernetes-native world, a new kind of governance and security is required. You need to reduce risk and ensure compliance without introducing configuration inconsistencies, service disruptions or additional overhead.

Are you an enterprise architect who is currently facing the challenge to secure and observe service connectivity across every cloud and every cluster? Kong Mesh, built on top of CNCF's Kuma and Envoy, is a universal service mesh delivering simplicity and scalability to every application. Combined with Kong Enterprise it provides a full-stack connectivity platform to modernize your business with end-to-end traffic reliability, zero-trust network security and global observability.

Many teams have transitioned to a microservices architecture to deploy more often, be more distributed, decoupled or improve overall reliability. While these innovations are largely positive, innovation without the proper security is an incident waiting to happen. An agnostic service mesh that supports multi-region, multi-zone, multi-cloud and hybrid modes is the answer to your microservice security dilemmas.

Microservices adoption is well underway at many organizations. As services become increasingly distributed, it becomes critical for organizations to look beyond fragmented and ad hoc approaches to securing and governing services. Rather than waste time with redundant coding efforts across service teams and manual processes that drain developer efficiency and increase risk, organizations need tools to effectively ensure security across hundreds to thousands of services.