Custom plugins

Developing custom plugins

Kong provides an entire development environment for developing plugins, including Plugin Development Kits (or PDKs), database abstractions, migrations, and more.

Plugins consist of modules interacting with the request/response objects or streams via a PDK to implement arbitrary logic. With custom plugins, you can configure these modules to provide custom functionality to Kong Gateway.

To start creating your own plugins, review the Getting Started documentation, or see the following references:

• Plugin Development Kit reference
• Other Language Support

Plugin Development Kits (PDKs)

PDKs are sets of functions that a plugin can use to facilitate interactions between plugins and the core (or other components) of Kong. Kong provides PDKs in the following languages:

Lua

Something about the Lua PDK

Lua PDK →

Go

Something about the Go PDK

Go PDK →

Python

Something about the Python PDK

Python PDK →

JavaScript

Something about the JavaScript PDK

JavaScript PDK →

Third-party plugins

Through partnerships with third parties, Kong lists some third-party custom plugins on the Kong Plugin Hub. These plugins are maintained by Kong partners. If you would like to have your plugin featured on the Kong Plugin Hub, we encourage you to become a Kong Partner.