Kong

Kong is presented as both an open source API Gateway and as an enterprise platform named Kong Konnect. The platform consists of an API Gateway, a Service Mesh, a Developer Portal, an API client, and more.

Kong has gained a strong footing for internal use cases, leading to its integrations with Kubernetes and Envoy.

Platform Capabilities

API Design API Gateway Analytics Monitoring Developer Portal Threat Protection

Gateway Capabilities

Custom Code Execution Protocol Transformation Traffic Management Mediation OpenAPI Integration

Delivery Models

SaaS Customer Managed (Cloud)Customer Managed (On-Premises)

Gateway Policies

Traffic Management

Canary Release
GraphQL Caching
Rate Limiting
Mocking
Cache Lookup
Cache Invalidation
Cache Population
Cache Target Response
Quota
Request Size Limiting

Mediation

GraphQL to REST
Request Transformation
Response Transformation
Context Persistence
JSON to XML

Security

IP Access Rules
Basic Authentication
API Key
OAuth 2.0
HMAC
JWT
LDAP
Message Inspection
SAML Assertion
Mutual TLS
OpenID Connect
HashiCorp Vault Authentication
Okta
Let's Encrypt
Bot Detection
CORS
Access Control Lists

Extension

Serverless Integrations
Monitoring Integrations
Statistics Collection
Message Logging

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