What is Kong API management?
Kong is an open-source API gateway and microservice management layer. Based on Nginx and the lua-nginx-module (specifically OpenResty), Kong’s pluggable architecture makes it flexible and powerful.
Is Kong API free?
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What is the use of Kong API gateway?
An API gateway acts as a proxy for your application’s microservices, exposing the public-facing API endpoints, routing incoming client requests to the relevant services, transforming them as required and aggregating the response data before sending the response to the client.
What is Kong in programming?
Kong is Orchestration Microservice API Gateway. Also known as an API Gateway, API middleware or in some cases Service Mesh. It is available as open-source project in 2015, its core values are high performance and extensibility. Kong is a Lua application running in Nginx and made possible by the lua-nginx-module.
What is Consumer Kong?
A consumer in kong is the application that is is using the API. So, unless you have multiple vendors using your app/web service, I suggest you create a single consumer. You can create multiple key and secret pair(JWT credentials) for that consumer. Create a JWT for a user by using the users Key and secret.
Is Kong a load balancer?
Kong provides multiple ways of load balancing requests to multiple backend services: a straightforward DNS-based method, and a more dynamic ring-balancer that also allows for service registry without needing a DNS server.
Is Kong the best API gateway?
For most of your use cases, Kong is the best choice but other API Gateways can be more suitable depending on your context: HAProxy if you already use it as a load balancer.
Is Kong based on Nginx?
Kong is built on NGINX, and uses Lua to implement its API functionality, whereas the API Management Module relies completely on native, high‑performance capabilities that are implemented as NGINX Plus modules.
Who uses Kong?
Who uses Kong?
| Company | Website | Company Size |
|---|---|---|
| Pramati Technologies Private Limited | pramati.com | 500-1000 |
| Australian Postal Corporation | auspost.com.au | >10000 |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | principal.com | >10000 |
What is the purpose of Kong?
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Is Kong DevOps tool?
26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Kong Inc., the leading cloud connectivity company, today announced the general availability of a major new release of Kong Enterprise that enables DevOps-driven automation for running APIs and microservices across multiple clouds and data centers.
How do you make an API in Kong?
We will proceed to work with Kong plugins like Key Authentication and Rate-limiting on the Flask API….Part 1
- Set up the Flask API. Follow this repo.
- Register our Flask API as a service in Kong.
- Register our endpoints of Flask API as routes in Kong.
- Create Consumers for our Kong service.