In today’s cloud ecosystem the demands for high functioning and high performance observability, security and networking functionality for applications and their network traffic are as high as ever. Historically a great deal of this kind of functionality has been implemented in userspace, but the ability to program these kinds of things directly into the operating system can be very beneficial to performance.

Users continue to give Kong top rankings in the Fall 2022 G2 reports, landing Kong in the leader quadrant in the API Management Tools G2 Grid and the Top 5 Easiest to Use API Management Tools. There are plenty of reasons why Kong is king when it comes to API management. But don’t just take our word for it! See what some of our users have to say.

We introduced the concept of Secrets Management in the Kong Gateway 2.8 release, and we’re happy to share that as of the recent Kong Gateway 3.0 release we’re giving it the Kong seal of approval! That means that you can rely on Secrets Management in production to manage all of your sensitive information.

Since the initial launch of Kong Konnect Cloud, one common feature request has (unsurprisingly) been Multi-Region support. Many customers look for SaaS solutions that support a distributed service architecture. Even at its inception, our goal was to support more than a single region. Today, we’re happy to announce Multi-Region Support for Kong Konnect Cloud.

Kong Gateway provides dynamic plugin ordering allowing administrators to control plugin execution order. Dynamic plugin ordering was added in Kong Enterprise 3.0 and the full technical reference is available in the official documentation. (Check out the overview of what’s new in Kong Gateway 3.0 announced at Kong Summit 2022.)