Kong Gateway
API gateway built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architecturesIntroducing Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is a lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway. An API gateway is a reverse proxy that lets you manage, configure, and route requests to your APIs.
Kong Gateway runs in front of any RESTful API and can be extended through modules and plugins. It’s designed to run on decentralized architectures, including hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments.
Install Kong Gateway
You can use the quickstart script to get an instance of Kong Gateway running almost instantly:
Pass the -- -h option to the script to see all possible configuration options, including how to pass a license
to the script, switch to an open-source Gateway image, enable RBAC, and more.
Visit the Gateway install page for all other installation options.
Deployment checklist
- Deployment topologies: Learn about the different ways to deploy Kong Gateway.
- Hosting options: Decide where you want to host your Data Plane nodes, and whether you want Kong to host them or host them yourself.
- Resource sizing guidelines: Review Kong’s recommended resource allocation guidelines.
- Securing Kong Gateway: Secure every aspect of your deployment, from access control, to mTLS, to secret management in vaults.
- Performance testing benchmarks: See the performance benchmark results for every Kong Gateway version.
- Kong Manager: Set up the GUI for Kong Gateway.
Tools to manage Kong Gateway
- decK: Manage Kong Gateway configuration through declarative state files
- Terraform: Manage infrastructure as code and automated deployments to streamline setup and configuration of Konnect and Kong Gateway
- KIC: Manage ingress traffic and routing rules for your services
- Kong Gateway Admin API: Manage on-prem Kong Gateway entities via an API
- Control Plane Config API: Manage Kong Gateway entities within Konnect control planes via an API
