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Kong

Name: Kong
Author: Kong Inc

Cloud-native API gateway and service mesh

40.0K stars Since 2020

Website → GitHub

Cloud-native API gateway and service mesh

License

Apache-2.0

Min RAM

512 MB

Min CPUs

1 core

Scaling

single_node

Complexity

beginner

Performance

medium

Self-hostable

✓

K8s native

Offline

Pricing

fully free

Docs quality

good

Vendor lock-in

none

Use cases

✓ Primary: api-gateway
✓ Primary: rate-limiting
✓ Primary: authentication

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Technical specs

Language

LuaGo

API type

REST

Protocols

HTTP

Deployment

binary

Community

GitHub stars 40.0K

Contributors 0

Commit frequency weekly

Plugin ecosystem none

Backing Kong Inc

Funding vc_backed

Release

Latest version —

Last release —

Since 2020

Best fit

Team size

solosmallmediumenterprise

Industries

general