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Kubernetes has become the backbone of many modern application deployment pipelines, and for good reason as a container orchestration platform, Kubernetes automates the scaling, deployment, and management of workloads, allowing developers to make their applications easier to manage and deploy at scale without worrying about their service’s dependencies, their user’s operating system, or the intricacies of their data center or infrastructure provider.

WSO2 Kubernetes Gateway provides a robust, Kubernetes-native platform for managing APIs. It’s purpose-built for cloud-native teams requiring fine-grained control over APIs in modern, distributed environments. With support for microservices architecture, secure ingress, and service discovery, Kubernetes Gateway solves the infrastructure side of the API equation.

If you are searching for Docker alternatives, chances are you are looking for better performance, more security, or freedom from licensing restrictions. Whether you are looking for an alternative to Docker Desktop, a lightweight runtime, or advanced container orchestration, this guide will help you find the best Docker alternatives available today. Here is everything you need to know about the top 10 tools that serve as powerful Docker competitors.

This blog addresses the common challenges organizations face with fragmented API management in Kubernetes environments and presents Kong Konnect combined with the Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) as a comprehensive solution.

Our Kubernetes support is available for Amazon, Google, Azure, and local deployments.

In recent years, both Docker and Laravel have exploded in popularity. In this step-by-step tutorial, we will dive into how to dockerize an existing Laravel app to run it locally. Then, we'll make it ready to run in a production environment, like for a web server. We will also deploy it to Google Cloud Run without getting into Kubernetes or any YAML configs, taking advantage of our Laravel Docker container. Let’s dig in!

When creating production-level applications, enterprises want to ensure the high availability of services. This often results in a lengthy development process that requires extensive testing for the applications or a new release. This involves testing the behavior of the application under load, measuring the performance metrics, and accounting for the resource consumption. All this is done to ensure that the application does not behave unexpectedly when being used by clients.

Performance tests, end-to-end tests, integration tests. There are many different types of tests you can run on your infrastructure. One of the most overlooked kinds is load testing. Failure to include load tests in your supply chain can be detrimental, as you will be missing out on a number of benefits. Some of the big advantages of load testing Kubernetes are.

With the promise of auto-provisioning and self-healing, Kubernetes environments can be an attractive option for hosting your application platform. However, with increasing budget restrictions, the competitive cloud providers and offerings, and the need to do more with less, engineers are looking to get a handle on their resource utilization.

We recently released Kong Gateway Operator 1.4 with support for managing Konnect entities from within the Kubernetes clusters. This means users can now manage their Konnect configurations declaratively, through Kubernetes resources powered by Kong’s Custom Resource Definitions. For example, here’s how you can use a KongConsumer resource in Kubernetes to configure a Consumer in Konnect.