Kong Solutions for the Public Sector

• Open-source API gateway.
• Built on NGINX and Lua.
• Handles authentication, rate limiting, logging, transformations, and more.
• Supports plugins (both open-source and enterprise).
• High-performance, low-latency gateway.

Includes all features of Kong Gateway OSS plus:

• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Vitals (advanced analytics)
• Dev Portal
• Enterprise plugins (e.g., LDAP, OpenID Connect)
• Multi-tenancy and fine-grained permissions
• Hybrid deployment support

• Enterprise service mesh built on open-source Kuma.
• Based on Envoy proxy.
• Provides service discovery, zero-trust security (mTLS), traffic routing, observability, and resilience.
• Multi-cloud and multi-cluster support.
• Advanced policies, RBAC, and enterprise-grade controls.

• CNCF sandbox project.
• Lightweight service mesh with native Kubernetes and VM support.
• Designed for simplicity and fast adoption.
• Built-in policies for traffic routing, observability, and security.

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• SaaS platform for full API lifecycle management.
• Combines Kong Gateway, Mesh, and developer tooling into a unified cloud platform.

Modules include:

• Runtime Manager (manage gateways and meshes)
• Service Hub (API catalog and service registry)
• Dev Portal (API documentation and onboarding)
• Analytics (real-time and historical insights)
• API Products (bundle and monetize APIs)

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• Popular open-source REST and GraphQL client.
• Used for API design, testing, and debugging.
• Supports OpenAPI, OAuth2, GraphQL, gRPC.
• Part of Kong since 2019.

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• Marketplace of official and community plugins for Kong Gateway.
• Categories include security, traffic control, transformations, analytics, etc.
• Enterprise users get access to additional premium plugins.

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