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:
curl -Ls https://get.konghq.com/quickstart | bash -s
This script sets up two Docker containers: an Enterprise Gateway instance running in free mode, and a PostgreSQL database.
Pass the -- -h option to the script to see all possible configuration options, including how to pass a license
to the script, how to switch to an open-source Gateway image, enable RBAC, and more.
Visit the Gateway install page for all other installation options.
More ways to get started
Capabilities
| Open Source | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Fast, Lightweight, Cloud-Native API Gateway | ||
| End-to-End Automation Drive a GitOps flow of API design and execution | ||
| Kong Ingress Controller Deploy APIs to Kubernetes in a native fashion. | ||
| Gateway Mocking Mock API responses directly on the API gateway. | ||
| Kong Manager: Admin GUI Visually manage Kong cluster, plugins, APIs, and consumers. | ||
| Traffic Management and Transformations | ||
| Security and Governance | ||
| AI Gateway | ||
| Enterprise Support and Services |
See the full Enterprise vs Open Source page feature comparison →
