Let’s boldly go where no one has gone before. Get ready, Star Trek fans! Jean-Luc Picard will be representing our microservice. Once we have Jean-Luc in our ship (microservice in production), what happens on day 2? We still need to add authorization, load balancing, rate limiting, etc. With an API gateway, like Kong Gateway, you don’t have to know how to do this because a set of program components, called plugins, allow you to implement this without any problem.
In this post, we are going to cover some of the most common misconceptions and queries users have about AWS Elasticsearch, Open Distro & OpenSearch as these three terms are often being used interchangeably to refer to any Amazon backed distribution of Elasticsearch and Kibana.