Kong Gateway is a lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway designed for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. It is built on a trusted and widely adopted open-source technology and driven by a massive developer community. Kong Gateway delivers the architectural flexibility needed to operate across any cloud, platform, or protocol. It can be configured natively using an API, web UI, or declarative configuration to manage updates via CI/CD pipelines. With Kong Gateway, you can automate each phase of the API and microservices lifecycle through declarative configuration and easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to bring applications online faster. It runs in any environment, platform, and implementation pattern — from on-prem to cloud, Kubernetes, and serverless. You have the flexibility to configure Kong Gateway with or without a database, and in hybrid or cloud-hosted modes. Exercise granular control over your API traffic with out-of-the-box security, authentication, transformation, and analytics plugins. Easily extend Kong Gateway to support unique use cases with custom plugins via Kong's Plugin Development Kit. Configure Kong Gateway the same way as Kubernetes with Kong Ingress Controller. Implement traffic management, transformations, and observability across Kubernetes clusters with zero downtime.

Features:

• APIOps: Fully automated. Automate each phase of the API and microservices lifecycle through declarative configuration. Easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to bring applications online faster.
• Installation Options: Deployment agnostic. Run Kong Gateway in any environment, platform, and implementation pattern — from on-prem to cloud, Kubernetes, and serverless. Flexibility to configure Kong Gateway with or without database, and in hybrid or cloud-hosted modes.
• Plugins: Highly extensible. Exercise granular control over your API traffic with out-of-the-box security, authentication, transformation, and analytics plugins. Easily extend Kong Gateway to support unique use cases with custom plugins via Kong's Plugin Development Kit.
• Kubernetes Ingress Controller: Kubernetes native. Configure Kong Gateway the same way as Kubernetes with Kong Ingress Controller. Implement traffic management, transformations, and observability across Kubernetes clusters with zero downtime.
• Configuration Update: Incremental configuration updates. Higher performance and responsive customer experience through efficient propagation of configuration updates. Reduced memory and CPU consumption and smaller amount of data being transmitted.
• Open source DNA: Built on a trusted and widely adopted open source technology and driven by a massive developer community. Share resources, knowledge, and best practices for building and deploying APIs