Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) allows you to natively manage APIs in Kubernetes with one unified control plane. It combines the powerful features of the Kong Gateway with Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native manner. KIC reduces operational overhead by providing a unified entry point for all external traffic into your Kubernetes clusters and eliminates the risk of disruptions caused by configuration drift. It automates robust security by implementing role-based security and authentication policies, consistently communicating with the Kubernetes API server and Kong’s Admin API. Furthermore, it boosts developer productivity by automatically generating Kong Declarative or Kong Ingress Controller configurations directly from OpenAPI spec files anywhere in your CI/CD pipeline. KIC is designed to be highly available and scalable, ensuring minimal service disruption and horizontal scaling as load increases. It offers the flexibility to deploy on local or managed Kubernetes clusters and includes plugins for authentication, security, traffic control, transformations, and analytics, along with 24x7 support for production-grade deployment.

Features:

• Kubernetes-native API management: Declaratively configure Kong Gateway the same way as Kubernetes. Implement traffic management, routes, backends, transformations, and observability across Kubernetes clusters. Integrate with Kubernetes-native tools such as cert-manager.
• Single source of truth: Unify Kubernetes security and identity policies with all other workloads. Securely authenticate and authorize communication with Kubernetes API-server based on role-based policies.
• Rich functionality without platform complexity: Configure Kong Gateway plugins at the ingress layer. Extend functionality for authentication, security, traffic control, transformations, analytics, and more instantly.
• High availability and scaling: Designed to be highly available and continue to operate with minimum service disruption in case of unexpected failure. Scale horizontally as load increases by deploying multiple instances of Kong.
• Flexible implementation and enterprise-grade support: Flexibility to deploy on local or managed Kubernetes clusters. Includes plugins for authentication, security, traffic control, transformations, analytics and more. Comes with 24x7 support for production-grade deployment.