Custom plugins

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Developing custom plugins

Kong provides a 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.

Get started with custom plugins

Learn about custom plugin development by following a series of tutorials that walk you through all the steps to build a new custom plugin for Kong Gateway.

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Custom plugins reference

Learn about how to develop custom plugins for Kong Gateway.

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Plugin Development Kit reference

The Plugin Development Kit (PDK) is a set of Lua functions and variables that can be used by plugins to implement their own logic.

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Custom plugin installation and distribution

Learn about the different ways to deploy a custom plugin.

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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.

Custom plugins

Developing custom plugins

Get started with custom plugins

Custom plugins reference

Plugin Development Kit reference

Custom plugin installation and distribution

Third-party plugins

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