Kong API Gateway

• An understanding of microservices, APIs, etc.
• Linux command line experience

Audience

• Developers
• Administrators
• DevOps engineers

Kong is an API management solution that acts as an API gateway for microservices. It has a plug-in architecture that allows users to extend Kong's core functionality. 

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to set up and monitor a Kong API gateway to manage microservices traffic.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure a Kong cluster.
• Manage a Kong API gateway to provide a single communication point for accessing APIs.
• Control web services traffic at a granular level.
• Secure APIs by authenticating access.
• Control traffic through rate limiting and quotas.
• Monitor, log and analyze API traffic using a third-party solution such as ELK stack.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
• To learn more about Kong, please visit: https://github.com/Kong/kong

Introduction

• The need for API management

Setting up Kong

• Deciding on an installation type: bare metal, cloud, containers and Kubernetes
• Using curl commands
• Installing and starting a Kong cluster

Overview of Kong Features and Architecture

• Kong's lightweight proxy
• Kong plugins

Adding Services and Routes

• Using the Admin API
• Implementing host matching

Consuming Services

• Configuring ports, hosts, and DNS

Responding to Requests

• Reverse proxying incoming requests

Controlling Traffic

• Managing, throttling, and restricting traffic
• Load balancing requests: dynamic ring-balancer vs DNS-based

Analyzing Traffic

• Visualizing, inspecting, and monitoring traffic (e.g., using Prometheus)
• Logging data transfers (e.g., using ELK Stack)

Transforming Data

• Transforming requests and responses in real-time

Securing API and Service Access

• Protecting services through an authentication layer

Integrating Kong with Third-party Services

• Calling serverless functions via APIs

Advanced Routing Mechanisms

• Beyond simple host matching

Securing the Kong Admin API

• Configuring firewall rules
• Using Kong as a proxy for the Admin API

Extending Kong

• Adding extra functionality through Kong Plugins
• Creating Your Own Plugin

Scaling Kong

• Increasing nodes to process trillions of API calls

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion