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November 2019

Kuma 0.3 Released with Traffic Routing!

Today, we’re thrilled to release Kuma 0.3, our open source control plane with brand new traffic routing capabilities. Kuma’s new L4 traffic routing rules allow you to easily implement blue/green deployments and canary releases. In summary, Kuma will now alleviate the stress of deploying new versions and/or features into your service mesh. Let’s take a glimpse at how to achieve it in our sample application: This sample application has three versions of the backend API.

Leave Your Legacy: Real Strategies for Modernizing

Most large enterprises have a lot of legacy developed over the years, but they need to embrace microservices quickly to beat the competition. The right approach for these large enterprise is not a big-bang strategy but rather an incremental strategy. In this Kong Summit 2019 session, Infosys AVP and Head of Architecture, Rajib Deb will explain how leveraging an API gateway and “servicifying” the legacy can help expedite the process for organizations adopting microservices architectural patterns.

Kong and codecentric AG Partner to Bring Kong Enterprise to Germany

Today, we’re announcing an exciting, new partnership with codecentric AG, a leading IT consultancy based in Germany. Through Kong’s growing Go-To-Market (GTM) Partner Program, Codecentric will help German companies accelerate their transition to microservices by adopting Kong Enterprise.

Observability: What Got You Here Won't Get You There

In the first wave of DevOps, practitioners embraced change to incorporate development into design and build processes. To successfully build the next generation of software, practitioners will need to catch the second wave of DevOps to focus on controlling and fine-tuning evolving architectures. Honeycomb CEO, Charity Majors, discusses how to ensure buildability, empower developers, and make a truly observable architecture that’s primed for success.

Securing Kubernetes Applications in 5 Minutes with Service Mesh

We announced the release of Kuma – a modern, universal control plane for service mesh back in September 2019. Since then, a roaring wave of community feedback and contribution has flooded the project. And that’s a good thing, so thank you to everyone who has given their time to helping Kuma grow. One recurring feedback we got was that the community was excited to see a platform-agnostic service mesh.

Configuring AWS GuardDuty with Lambda for Slack Notifications

At Kong, we leverage many tools to protect our services and customers. Terraform from HashiCorp allows us to automate the process with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Another important tool is Amazon Web Services (AWS) GuardDuty, a continuous monitoring service for security threat detection in your AWS accounts.

General Availability of Kong Enterprise 2020 - The Full Lifecycle Service Control Platform

We are proud to announce the General Availability of the latest version of our flagship enterprise offering, Kong Enterprise 2020. At last year’s Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve taken the service control platform vision one step further to enable organizations worldwide to manage and optimize the entire service lifecycle.