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Kong is a next generation cloud-native API platform for multi-cloud and hybrid organizations. When building for the web, mobile, or Internet of Things, you’ll need a common functionality to run your software, and Kong is that solution. Kong acts as a gateway, connecting microservices requests and APIs natively while also providing load balancing, logging, monitoring, authentication, rate-limiting, and so much more through plugins. Kong is highly extensible as well as platform agnostic, connecting APIs across different environments, platforms and patterns. Achieve architectural freedom with Kong today.
Features
- Cloud-native and platform agnostic
- Dynamic and hash-based load balancing
- Circuit-breaker for smart tracking of unhealthy upstream service
- Active and passive health checks
- Service discovery
- Serverless
- WebSockets communication to your upstream services
- gRPC services communication
- Easy adding of OAuth2.0 authentication
- Logging requests and responses to your system over HTTP, TCP, UDP, or to disk
- Security through ACL, Bot detection, whitelist/blacklist IPs and more
- Syslog
- SSL Certificate set up
- Live monitoring
- Forward Proxy
- Authentications, including HMAC, JWT, Basic and more
- Rate-limiting
- Transformations of HTTP requests and responses
- Caching
- Control Kong cluster through CLI
- RESTful API
- Geo-Replicated
- Failure detection & recovery
- Clustering
- Scalability through additional nodes
- NGINX
- Plugins
Project Samples
License
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