Awesome Kong

:sunglasses: A curated list of awesome resources for Kong API Gateway

Kong is the world's most popular open source microservice API Gateway. Kong is powered by the battle-tested tech of NGINX and Cassandra with focus on scalability, high performance and reliability.

Contents

• Tools
  • Distributions
  • GUI
  • Configuration
• Custom Plugins
  • Auth Plugins
• Resources
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Videos
  • Slides
  • Blogs
  • Community

Tools

Distributions

• Homebrew - Homebrew Formula for Kong
• Vagrant - Vagrantfile for provisioning a development ready environment for Kong
• Docker - Docker distribution for Kong
• Kubernetes - Kubernetes managed Kong cluster
• Kubernetes Ingress Controller - Use Kong for Kubernetes Ingress
• AWS Cloudformation - This CloudFormation template helps you model and set up Kong's resources in AWS easily
• Heroku - Deploy Kong Community Edition clusters to Heroku Common Runtime and Private Spaces using the Kong buildpack

GUI

• Konga - More than just another GUI to Kong Admin API
• Kong Dashboard - Dashboard for managing Kong gateway

Configuration

• Terraform Provider Kong - The Kong Terraform Provider tested against real Kong
• decK - CLI tool to configure Kong declaratively using a single config file (Compatiable with Kong 1.x)
• Kongfig - Declarative configuration for Kong
• Ansible Kong - Installs and Configures Kong with Ansible

Custom Plugins

Auth Plugins

• Kong OpenID Connect - Plugin for Kong implementing the OpenID Connect Relying Party (RP) functionality
• Kong External OAuth 2.0 - Use an external OAuth 2.0 provider to protect your API

Resources

Articles

• Experiences with the Kong API Gateway by Grig Gheorghiu
• An Introduction to Kong by Eugen

Books

• Kong: Becoming a King of API Gateways

Videos

• Microservices Orchestration with Kong, Galileo & Gelato by Ahmad Nassri
• API Gateway Pattern & Kong in a Microservices World by Marco Palladino
• API & Microservices Management with Kong by Ahmad Nassri

Slides

• Introduction to Kong API Gateway by Yohann Ciurlik
• Microservices & API Gateways by Marco Palladino
• Gatekeeper: API gateway by ChengHui Weng
• Developing a user-friendly OpenResty by Thibault Charbonnier
• A Cassandra driver from and for the Lua community by Thibault Charbonnier
• A Kong retrospective: from 0.10 to 0.13 by Thibault Charbonnier

Blogs

• Kong Blog

Community

• Kong Nation
• #kong on Freenode
• Stack Overflow
• Meetup
• Kong Community Calls

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License

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