Over the past ten years, Clubhouse and other innovative startups built software quickly. They started from scratch and blew past their incumbents. But the fact of the matter is that speed is no longer a differentiator. Everyone can move quickly. We’ve seen it as Facebook and Twitter quickly duplicated Clubhouse’s “innovative” functionality. Today, it’s all about agility—taking the momentum that you’ve already built up.
APIs have long been the programmers tool of choice for inter-application communication. Built by programmers, for programmers. Giving each other an interface and a means by which to call each other’s code. As for documentation and ease of use, well….
Think back to when your development team made the switch to Dockerized containers. What was once an application requiring multiple services on virtual machines transitioned to an application consisting of multiple, tidy Docker containers. While the result was a streamlined system, the transition likely was daunting. Now, it’s time for another transformational leap: moving from a single set of containers to a highly available, orchestrated deployment of replica sets using Kubernetes.
Hello, everyone! Viktor Gamov, a developer advocate with Kong here. In this article, I would like to show you how to set up service connectivity using Kong Konnect and Kubernetes. I will deploy an application in Kubernetes, configure a runtime through Konnect and demonstrate some management capabilities like enabling plugins. Let’s dive right in!