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Join Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, for an advanced service mesh workshop. You’ll learn the practical application of key Service Mesh policies, including mTLS, Rate Limiting, Retry, and VirtualOutbound.

In this hands-on workshop:

– Viktor will break down the function and significance of mTLS for secure network communication.
– Rate Limiting will be explored, highlighting its importance in preventing overloads and managing resources.
– The Retry policy’s role in enhancing reliability and fault tolerance will be examined.
– We’ll also delve into the mechanisms of VirtualOutbound policies in controlling traffic flow.

Join us to elevate your understanding and skills in implementing these crucial service mesh policies using Kuma or Kong Mesh.

Watch Getting Started with Service Mesh 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3e41g3FxKs&t=6s

Join Viktor Gamov, a Principal Developer Advocate with Kong, as he navigates the evolution of Kubernetes Ingress. Starting with the basics, he’ll explain how Ingress is pivotal in managing external access to services within a Kubernetes cluster through HTTP and HTTPS routes.

In this talk, Viktor will also address its limitations – the challenge of managing multiple Ingress resources, inconsistencies across different controllers, and inherent limitations in handling non-L7 protocols like TCP and UDP.

The talk then shifts gear toward the future – the Gateway API. This next evolution of Kubernetes networking expands beyond HTTP/HTTPS, promising improved traffic routing and the capability to handle diverse protocols, thus addressing Ingress’s limitations.

Viktor will explain how the Gateway API introduces resources like GatewayClass and Gateway to provide a flexible, structured way of defining traffic routing paths, simplifying traffic management in complex environments.

Adding to the mix, he will hint at how the Kong Gateway and Ingress Controller can leverage the Gateway API to extend their capabilities, offering a robust and more flexible networking experience.

Whether you’re a Kubernetes beginner or a seasoned pro, this talk promises a wealth of insights. Join us to explore Kubernetes Ingress and step into its promising future with the Gateway API.

In this talk, Claudio Acquaviva (Senior Solution Architect at Kong) and Ádám Sándor (Solutions Architect at Styra) discuss how to leverage Kong Konnect API Gateway and Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) to build Open Policy Agent (OPA) authorization policies for GraphQL APIs. You will first learn how to implement a GraphQL API at Kong Gateway with OPA, followed by diving into Styra DAS to provide an enterprise-ready policy management platform to build, test, and deploy authorization policies.

Service mesh is the future of application connectivity, offering immediate enhancements to your application traffic’s security, reliability, and observability. It abstracts network complexities, offering discovery, routing, and more functionalities. But you may ask, isn’t all of this already available in our frameworks?

In this workshop, you’ll discover just how straightforward it is to get started with service mesh in a Kubernetes environment, and we’re not restricting ourselves to any specific language or framework. We aim to be inclusive, addressing developers from diverse backgrounds.

First, we'll be able to guide you through installing the service mesh control plane using Kuma.
We will then demonstrate the deployment of sample applications. The principles apply broadly, and developers of all stripes will find the content relevant and valuable.

Next, we’ll delve into enabling traffic policies and exploring observability using tools like Grafana and Prometheus. We will achieve all this without needing convoluted allocation across multiple frameworks or reliance on custom code.

This session is designed to be a practical, hands-on workshop. It will provide you with the tools and knowledge to harness the power of service mesh, regardless of your preferred development language or framework.

00:00 Intro
7:10 Introduction
9:25 Setting up Kuma
17:03 Deploy Apps
30:33 Exposing Services via Built-in Gateway
35:29 Policies
39:25 Observability

There are lots of iconic duos out there. Batman and Robin, Jelly and Ice Cream, and now, Kong and Kubernetes.

Join Michael as he shows what Kong Ingress Controller can do for you. We’ll take a look at how to secure your services with the KongPlugin CRD, how to use the Kubernetes events system to help debug when things go wrong, and we’ll even take a sneak peek at the upcoming Kubernetes Gateway API and how you can start using it today.

The Gateway API is the next generation of the Ingress API, one of the most widely used resources across Kubernetes. We will explore the rich set of features provided by this API and deep dive into a demo-oriented talk where we will learn how to expose applications outside the cluster boundaries. We will leverage the Kong Gateway Operator to deploy the controlplane (Kong Ingress Controller) and dataplane (Kong), then, with the help of the Gateway API, expose services outside the cluster boundaries and perform traffic splitting and load balancing based on different rules.

Join @ViktorGamov Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, in this hands-on, comprehensive guide, we will dive into the power of Kong Konnect, the managed control plane for Kong Gateway designed for seamless API management.

We explore key features for API management, such as rate limiting based on consumer groups, API authentication using API keys, publishing APIs to the developer portal, and enabling dynamic application registration so developers immediately start consuming your APIs.

Plus show how to leverage API automation to streamline your workflows.

This engaging, practical video will revolutionize your API strategy and help you elevate your services and applications to new heights! 💪 #KongKonnect #konggateway

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Get ready to level up your API management game with Kong Konnect!

Join Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, for this demo-heavy session on getting started with Kong Konnect. You’ll learn how to:

- Set up runtime groups
- Configure services
- Add plugins to routes
- Publish your APIs to the developer portal for easy sharing with other developers

To top it off, Viktor will give you a sneak peek at the GitOps aspect of Kong Konnect, showing you how to make your API deployment pipeline a breeze with GitHub Actions and decK.

This session is a must-attend if you’re an API developer looking to streamline your operations and elevate your API management skills. Let’s dive into the world of efficient and secure API management with Kong Konnect!

In this episode of our Tech Talk series, Siddharth Saikumar (Cloud Security Engineering, Vanguard) and Ragunath Sudalaimuthu (Lead Software Engineer, Lowe’s) will show us design and best practices for building a cloud agnostic API platform.

Digital modernization accelerated the API ecosystem in every organization. A successful API strategy is paramount to an organization’s growth trajectory.

In this session, we shall go over how to enable a cloud agnostic API platform with Kong Gateway on Kubernetes, with the power of a custom developer portal to reduce the time to market and ease of consumer management.
We will cover a broad range of topics including: CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment and operators, Vault integration, Kong Ingress Controller, OpenTelemetry, REST/GraphQL API enablement, and more.

Magicians never reveal their secrets . . . but today, we reveal everything! Behold the mysterious Envoy and the magic of mesh in Kong Mesh and its open source sibling, Kuma. Spoiler: the secret is in the sidecar! Join this mesh-by-example talk to learn about how the service mesh manages certificate rotation, cross-zone communication, and service discovery. This talk will explain to service mesh newcomers what application developers can offload to the sidecar proxy — and why it’s a cost-effective way to achieve your reliability and security objectives.

A service mesh helps to make service communication more secure, reliable and traceable in distributed system architectures. In connection with the topic of service mesh, we often think of terms such as microservices, containers or Kubernetes; i.e. terms from the orbit of modern design methods, architectural approaches or technologies. Of course, everything is usually cloud-based.

In reality, however, the world is not quite so simple: IT system landscapes today are very heterogeneous and system landscapes have grown over the years, with a colorful mix of architectural patterns and runtime platforms having emerged. Kubernetes-based workloads are possibly distributed across one or more public cloud providers. This brings with it a whole range of new questions, e.g. how to securely bring together multiple clouds or how applications that cannot be operated in a containerized manner can benefit from the advantages of a mesh.

In this presentation Sven and Fabian talk about:
– How a service mesh can help to easily build and manage multi-cloud applications
– How to design a multi-cloud, multi-cluster mesh
– Handle aspects like security or observability consistently without the need for implementation changes

The #container adoption journey may be simple for experienced practitioners in greenfield development -but many established enterprises still face the daunting beginning of this journey, carrying the weight of complex monolithic applications on traditional compute.
Join Kat and Christian as they extend #servicemesh and #GitOps beyond the boundaries of #Kubernetes. In this talk, you’ll learn:
- How to bridge your classical compute and container-native platforms and enhance your monolith-to-#microservice transformation roadmap with service mesh and GitOps policy-as-code.
- How to utilize a service mesh capable of deploying to both Kubernetes-native and non-Kubernetes based platforms to implement microservice transformation – one micro-component at a time.
- The benefits realized from a service mesh beyond the boundaries of Kubernetes from a single control plane.

Tech Talks by Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring open-source products and topics relevant to you with extended live demos.
About this Tech talk:
Kong’s Gateway offering wraps several frontend and backend services which include an Admin API and GUI, Developer Portal API and GUI, as well as Ingress Controllers, data plane proxies, and various cache and database backend services.
Join Kat Morgan, Field Engineer and Senior Developer Advocate, to determine which components are right for you and your use case.
We will cover:
- What Kong looks like on Kubernetes
- The different options for deploying Kong and some of the permutations
- The microservices components that make up the Kong Gateway
- How they fit in a real-world use case

#Kong #KongGateway #kubernetes #microservices #ingress #KongAPIGateway

#TechTalks by #Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring #opensource products and topics relevant to you with extended live demos.

In this session, Viktor Gamov walks you through how to easily set up #servicemesh across multiple environments and automatically enable #security and #observability on any network.

About this Webinar
Service mesh is the future of application connectivity. It delivers immediate value to any architecture by increasing application traffic’s security, reliability and observability. At the same time, it can be challenging to understand and deploy service mesh in production—but it doesn’t have to be this way.

#Kuma, an open source #CNCF sandbox project, takes a new approach to service mesh to build modern architectures across a variety of platforms including #Kubernetes and virtual machines (VMs). Kuma is a universal control plane that addresses the complexity of service mesh technologies by enabling seamless management of any service on the network.

We cover:
- How to easily set up service mesh across multiple environments.
- How to automatically enable security and observability on any network.
- An introduction to new concepts and products to better enable developers and architects at any skill level to become comfortable with service mesh.

Tech Talks by Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring open-source products and topics relevant to you with extended live demos.

Kubernetes Ingress is one of the most widely used resources across Kubernetes. It helps to expose your applications and services to the outside world. However, the networking landscape in Kubernetes has significantly evolved. Many modern use cases very quickly exposed the limitations of Ingress API. This led to the creation of the Gateway API, a collection of new resources and APIs which improve and will potentially supersede Ingress in the future. What does this mean for you? Join us and learn everything you need to know about what Gateway API brings to the future of Kubernetes networking.

Viktor Gamov covers:
- What is Ingress?
- What is the Gateway API?
- A deep dive comparison of the differences
- How to use Kong Ingress Controller to leverage the Gateway API

#techtalks #techtalksbyKong #kubernetes #kubernetesingress #gatewayAPI #Kong #KongIngresscontroller #webinar #devops #API

- #TechTalks by Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring open-source products and topics with extended live demos.

Kong #Insomnia is one of the most popular open source API design and testing tools. It allows you to collaborate with your team to build and debug your APIs. We’ve been busy delivering updates to Insomnia so far this year and one of the most exciting is the improved Git Sync experience. Git Sync lets you share your work in Insomnia through Git with your team, allowing your API specs, requests, and tests to be versioned alongside your code. Join us to learn more about the recent improvements and for a sneak peek into what’s coming next in 2022.4!

We cover:
- An overview of recent releases
- What is Git Sync?
- What has changed and what are the benefits?
- What’s next on the roadmap?

#Insomina #Webinar #GitSync #APIDesign #APITesting #API #Kong
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Tech Talks by Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring open-source products and topics relevant to you with extended live demos.

The quest for resilience and agility has driven us into the modern age of microservices. Bringing services to market on microservice architecture demands utilization of sprawling technology offerings and tooling. Universally this journey includes an infrastructure orchestration phase, an application deployment phase, and a service publishing phase.

In this Tech Talk, we will dive into using both Kong API Gateway for service publishing, and Pulumi to orchestrate our infrastructure, deploy our applications, and configure Kong.

#TechTalk #Webinar #Kubernetes #Pulumi #KOng #APIGateway #Microservices