Gateway Manager

Manage all Kong runtimes in a single console

What is Gateway Manager?

Gateway Manager is a Konnect module that lets you catalog, connect to, and monitor the status of all Control Planes (CPs) and Data Plane nodes (DPs) in one place.

With Gateway Manager, you can:

Manage Control Planes and their configurations
Deploy and monitor Data Plane nodes
Use fully-managed cloud gateways or self-hosted infrastructure
Ensure high availability, security, and scalability for your API traffic

Every region in every organization starts with one default Control Plane. With Konnect, you can configure additional Kong Gateway Control Planes, each of which will have isolated configuration. Use multiple Control Planes in one Konnect organization to manage Data Plane nodes and their configuration in any groupings you want.

Some common use cases for using multiple Control Planes include:

Environment separation: Split environments based on their purpose, such as development, staging, and production.
Region separation: Assign each Control Plane to a region or group of regions. Spin up Data Plane nodes in those regions for each Control Plane.
Team separation: Dedicate each Control Plane to a different team and share resources based on team purpose.
Resource hosting and management separation: Run a hybrid Control Plane with self-hosted Data Plane nodes, and a separate Dedicated Cloud Gateway Control Plane with Kong-managed nodes.

 
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A(Hybrid 
Control Plane)
B(Fully-managed 
Control Plane)
C( Self-managed 
Data Plane nodes 
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D( Self-managed 
Data Plane nodes 
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E( Fully-managed 
Data Plane nodes 
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B
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A --proxy configuration---> C & D
B --proxy configuration---> E

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Cloud hosted

Serverless Gateways

Serverless Gateways provide fully managed Data Plane nodes with automatic scaling. Ideal for rapid provisioning and API experimentation.

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Dedicated Cloud Gateways

Dedicated Cloud Gateways allow full control over infrastructure placement while providing fully managed Data Plane nodes.

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Configurable entities

Gateway Services

Gateway Services represent the upstream services in your system. These applications are the business logic components of your system responsible for responding to requests.

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Routes

A Route uses specific URL patterns and HTTP verbs to match incoming requests and pass them to a Gateway Service. This determines which upstream services will process a given request.

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Consumers

A Consumer typically refers to an entity that consumes or uses the APIs managed by Kong Gateway.

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Consumer Groups

Consumer Groups let you apply common configurations to groups of Consumers, such as rate limiting policies or request and response transformation.

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Upstreams

An Upstream enables load balancing by providing a virtual hostname and collection of Targets (upstream service instances).

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Targets

A Target identifies an instance of an upstream service using an IP address or hostname with a port.

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Plugins

Plugins are modules that extend the functionality of Kong Gateway.

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Certificates

A Certificate object represents a public certificate, and can be optionally paired with the corresponding private key.

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Vaults

Vaults allow you to securely store and then reference secrets from within other entities, ensuring that secrets aren’t visible in plaintext throughout the platform.

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