Kong entities refer to the various components and objects that make up the Kong API Gateway and its ecosystem.
In Kong Gateway, a service is an abstraction of an upstream application that services requests.
A route is a path to a resource within an upstream application.
A consumer typically refers to an entity that consumes or uses the APIs managed by Kong Gateway.
Consumer groups let you apply common configurations to groups of consumers, such as rate limiting policies or request and response transformation.
An upstream refers to the service applications sitting behind Kong Gateway, to which client requests are forwarded.
A target identifies a specific instance of an upstream service.
Plugins are modules that extend the functionality of Kong Gateway.
Workspaces provide a way to segment Kong Gateway entities. Entities in a workspace are isolated from those in other workspaces.