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Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)

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What is Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)?

Kong Gateway Community is an open-source API gateway designed to provide lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API management solutions. According to the vendor, it caters to companies of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises, and is widely used by software developers, DevOps engineers, API architects, IT managers, and e-commerce companies. With its architectural flexibility and seamless integration across any cloud, platform, or protocol, Kong Gateway Community aims to empower businesses to efficiently manage and control their APIs.

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Best Open Source API Gateway for your micro-services setup

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Prashant ChaudhariView profile
Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Kong as an API Gateway for our Back-end API services. Kong sits behind AWS ALB and in front of our API services. We use Kong to authenticate all the requests, rate limiting, bot detection, request/response transformation, etc. For authentication, we use OAuth2.0 primarily and ApiKey auth for other use cases.

Pros

  • Mapping requests to back-end services
  • Plugins for almost everything
  • It's super fast

Cons

  • Logging plugins need more explanation
  • Monitoring plugins can also be made a bit more simple to use
  • Online Documentation in general

Most Important Features

  • OAuth Plugin
  • API Gateway implementation with Services and Routes
  • Request / Response transform plugins

Return on Investment

  • Kong helped us quickly setup micro services
  • Domain based request routing
  • OAuth plugin for centralized authentication