2022 is coming to a close, and what better way to end the year than a list for list’s sake? As we reflect on the year passing, here are the top five Kong moments of 2022 as decided by me (because all the people more important than me are already on vacation). Read on!
Kuma is configurable through policies. These enable users to configure their service mesh with retries, timeouts, observability, and more. Policies contain three main pieces of information: Kuma 2.0 introduces a new matching API that’s more understandable and powerful. In this article, we explain why we’re doing this, how to use the new policy matching API, and what’s coming next.
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 2022.7. This update brings several new capabilities into the fold with a focus on improving API quality and driving productivity. Read on to learn more about what’s new in Kong Insomnia.
IBM recently announced the deprecation of its Cloud API Gateway, a service used to create and manage APIs by placing a gateway in front of existing IBM Cloud endpoints. With this move, IBM Cloud Functions and IBM Cloud Foundry are no longer able to use Cloud API Gateway service for rate limiting, splitting, and authentication.
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard that allows organizations to set up single sign-on (SSO) across multiple websites and applications. SAML 2.0 is the latest standard, and was ratified in March 2005, replacing SAML 1.1. We’ll refer to SAML as meaning SAML 2.0 for the remainder of this document. SAML is mostly used as a web-based authentication mechanism as it relies on using the browser to broker the authentication flow.
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Enterprise 3.1. In Kong Enterprise 3.1, we build on the foundation of our plugin ecosystem by introducing five new plugins and enhancing the functionality of existing ones. These include: We’ll explore the ins and outs of each of these plugins below. But first let’s talk about why plugins are such an important part of Kong’s solutions.
