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Debugging and Diagnosing the Kong Gateway With Ease

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.5 for Open Source (OSS). This release enables Javascript developers to extend the Gateway via the WebAssembly layer which is currently in Beta, delivers some enormous observability enhancements, and unlocks top-end performance. Keep reading for the latest on Kong Gateway 3.5 for OSS!

Kubernetes Gateway API: an Engineering Perspective

The Kubernetes Gateway API represents a massive collaborative effort and key advancement in Kubernetes networking. Developed by multiple vendors and community members, the Gateway API provides a robust and extensible new standard for managing ingress traffic. With the recent general availability of version 1.0.0, the Gateway API is now ready for production use. The release of the Gateway API is a major milestone for Kubernetes networking that has the potential to simplify and enhance ingress management.

Master Blue-Green Deployments with Kong Gateway Operator | Kong Tutorials

🔵�� Dive into the seamless world of Blue-Green Deployments with Kong Gateway Operator in our latest Kong Tech Talks episode. Viktor, a cloud-native aficionado, explains the nuts and bolts of implementing blue-green deployment strategies for gateway data planes using the powerful Kong Gateway Operator. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, a systems architect, or just passionate about cloud-native technologies, this video is your gateway to mastering zero-downtime updates.

Gateway API: From Early Years to GA

In the Kubernetes world, the Ingress API has been the longstanding staple for getting access to your Services from outside your cluster network. Ingress has served us well over the years and can be found present in several dozen different implementations, but as time has passed and Kubernetes has grown it's become clear that there exists a greater need than Ingress is able to deliver.

Why We Love the Gateway API

Kubernetes took the world by storm in 2014. A CLI-first experience, containers as a first-class citizen, and a need to dynamically scale workloads meant that Kubernetes was the right choice for many teams moving to the cloud. By late 2015, the community realized that there needed to be a standard way to manage traffic at the edge of a cluster and so the Ingress API was born.

Global Deployments with Kong Konnect & Koyeb!

🌍 Mastering Global Deployments with Kong Konnect & Koyeb! Our dynamic duo Danny Freese and Viktor Gamov, are teaming up with the tech visionaries from Koyeb, Co-Founder and CEO, Yann Léger, and Co-Founder and CPO, Edouard Bonlieu. In this episode, we’ll be getting hands-on with: Next Month: Upon popular demand, Vik and Danny are getting you the scoop on all things Proxy-Wasm.

Painless Kong Gateway Upgrades on Kubernetes with the Kong Gateway Operator

Announced at API Summit 2023, the Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) is the next generation management tool for Kong Gateway on Kubernetes. Join Michael Heap (Sr Director of Developer Experience at Kong) as he walks through how to use KGO to deploy new Kong Gateway data planes and how to safely test Gateway upgrades using replicates and blue/green deployments. We'll also talk about what's coming next for the Kong Gateway Operator and you'll get a chance to influence the upcoming roadmap.

Quick Look: Building a Modern API Platform: A 5-Min Mini-Demo with Kong Konnect | API Summit 2023

Quick Look: Building a Modern API Platform: A 5-Min Mini-Demo with Kong Konnect | API Summit 2023 In this session, Greg Peranich, Senior Solutions Engineer at Kong demonstrates how technology leaders can leverage Kong Konnect to build a world-class API lifecycle management platform. Greg covers topics such as managing distributed Kong Gateway instances, securing outbound calls to a third-party API, configuring a gateway in a declarative fashion, monitoring the health and performance of any service, route, or application, and much more.