Overview
Kong Gateway Enterprise is a service connectivity platform that provides technology teams at multi-cloud and hybrid organizations the "architectural freedom" to build APIs and services anywhere. Kong's service connectivity platform provides a flexible, technology-agnostic platform that supports any cloud, platform, protocol and architecture. Kong Enterprise supports the full lifecycle of service management, enabling users to easily design, test, secure, deploy, monitor, monetize and version their APIs. Over 250 enterprises trust Kong Enterprise to reduce time to market by bringing applications and services to market faster, as well as increase infrastructure ROI by maximizing resource efficiency through improved automation and reduced overhead.
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- Decentralize Applications and Services - Break down monoliths into services or build new applications with distributed architectures to accelerate your journey to microservices, Kubernetes and service mesh.
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To deploy your Kong Gateway Enterprise license, please, follow the steps described here: https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/latest/plan-and-deploy/licenses/deploy-license/
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Kong API Gateway: Love it or leave it
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Friendly and powerful solution for APIs
A lightweight, fast and scalable platform for APIs hosting
Its built on top of nginX - a world-renown reverse proxy
Its lightweight and expandable architecture - use only the modules (plugins) that you require
Its modular design is easy to understand and intuitive - learning curve is small.
Kong API gateway easy to implement
Seamless integration and efficient security boost API management capabilities
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution as a way to expose our internal APIs, both internally in Kubernetes and for private cloud of our own.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Kong Gateway Enterprise are its seamless integration with Kubernetes and cloud, many plugins that can be incorporated in a solution, and its incorporation with low-code function systems.Kong provides the ability to relatively fast change our development and DevOps scaling from on-premise API and managed APIs to a very good and scalable solution, which provides the ability to monitor and react to the API, making it more valuable and providing more benefits for customers.
What needs improvement?
More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as .NET, because many enterprises are looking for .NET solutions or incorporating with .NET solutions. I mostly missed local resellers or partners that we could use within our enterprise, because it was difficult for some tech personnel to work with remote tech support.
For how long have I used the solution?
I am just a customer of Kong Gateway Enterprise from my former work.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability would be rated about eight, as it is mostly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of this solution would be rated about eight or nine, and it would benefit if there was a little less latency.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support from Kong Gateway Enterprise would be rated about eight, as we missed local technical support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Kong Gateway Enterprise, I used Azure API management.We switched from Azure to Kong Gateway Enterprise because we needed a solution to make API management on-premise and on cloud, and we did not want to work with Azure Arc, so we tried to find a solution that is possible to work with on both platforms, such as hybrid platforms.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of this solution was pretty straightforward, as we started to work with Docker , Docker containers, and Kong Gateway Enterprise as a managed platform with Kong Connect; we quickly realized how to work with it and how to deploy it and work with GitOps.
What about the implementation team?
Our deployment was done in-house, as it is a private enterprise and closed.
What other advice do I have?
I did not work with the AI capabilities of this solution, so I cannot measure it.Based on my experience, I would definitely recommend Kong Gateway Enterprise to other people.I would rate the whole solution about nine.