Master the Art of API Management with Kong – Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building Secure, Scalable, and Efficient APIs
What you will learn
Introduction: Understand the benefits of using Kong in our full-stack application
Fundamentals of API Management: Understanding the basics of APIs and how Kong API Gateway facilitates their management
Installation and Configuration: How to install Kong API Gateway and configure it for different environments
Managing Services and Routes: Creating and managing services and routes within Kong
Securing APIs: Implementing security measures such as authentication, authorization, and encryption to protect APIs
Learn AI Gateway with Multi-LLM Support: For Generative AI Developers
Traffic Control: Techniques for controlling and optimizing the flow of API traffic, including rate limiting and load balancing
Monitoring and Analytics: Setting up monitoring tools to track API performance and analyze usage data
Plugin Development: Learning how to extend Kongβs functionality with custom plugins written in Lua
Best Practices: Understanding best practices for API management and operations within Kong
Description
In this course, you will learn Kong, Kong API Gateway is a powerful tool for managing APIs in a microservices architecture. Here are some common use cases for Kong API Gateway and things we are going to cover in this course.
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- Installing Kong: Installing Kong via Docker
- Interacting with Kong via Konga: Open-Source GUI to Kong Admin API
- Interacting Kong via REST API: create services, Routes, Consumers, and plugins in Kong via REST APIs.
- Microservices Abstraction: It acts as a single entry point for all backend services, simplifying the development, deployment, and management of systems.
- Security and Authentication: Kong can manage security concerns like SSL/TLS termination, OAuth2.0, JWT, API keys, and more, ensuring secure access to your services.
- Traffic Control: With features like rate limiting, request size limiting, and circuit breakers, Kong helps control the traffic flow to your services.
- Analytics and Monitoring: Kong provides real-time analytics and monitoring capabilities, allowing you to track API performance and usage patterns.
- AI Gateway with Multi-LLM Support: This allows developers who want to integrate one or more LLMs into their products to be more productive and ship AI capabilities faster while offering a solution to architects and platform teams that ensures visibility, control, and compliance on every AI request sent by the teams. And because itβs built on top of Kong Gateway, it will be possible to orchestrate AI flows in the cloud or on self-hosted LLMs with the best performance and the lowest latency, which are critical in AI-based applications.
- High Availability: Kong supports clustering for high availability, ensuring that the API gateway remains operational even if some nodes fail.
- Load Balancing: It can distribute incoming API traffic across multiple backend services, improving performance and reliability.
- Request and Response Transformations: Kong can modify requests and responses on the fly, such as adding, removing, or modifying headers.
- Decoupling: By decoupling the client-facing API endpoints from the underlying microservice architecture, Kong allows for seamless updates and changes to the services without affecting the clients.
- Extending Kong via Creating Custom Plugins in Lua: Creating custom plugins in Lua for Kong API Gateway allows you to extend its functionality to suit your specific needs.
- Learn Lua (Optional): We are going to learn Lua Programming Language.
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Content
Introduction
Course Outline
What is Kong (Docs)
Kong Overview
About Me
Coding Resources
Making the Best Use of This Course
Installation
Install WSL
Install Docker
Install Kong via Docker (Docs)
Docker Compose Code
Useful Docker Commands
Install Kong Gateway
Konga Direct Installation (Optional)
Install PostgreSQL Database Directly (Optional)
Install pgAdmin Directly (Optional)
Exploring Kong Database
Connectiong Kong with Konga
Required Ports (Docs)
API Endpoint Using FastAPI (Optional)
Introduction to FastAPI
GitHub Repo (Docs)
Create an API Endpoint using FastAPI
Postman
Introduction
Postman Installation
Add a FastAPI Application
Adding API Endpoint to Postman
Kong
Kong Manager
Kong Service
Kong Route
Kong Consumers
Kong Plugins
Kong Upstreams
Kong Admin API
Kong Admin API
Konga (Optional)
Konga UI
Kong Authentication Plugins
Basic Authentication
HMAC Authentication
HMAC Authentication Errors (Docs)
Key Authentication
Key Authentication Tips (Docs)
JWT Authentication
OAuth 2.0 Authentication
Kong Security Plugins
Bot Detection
Kong Regular Expressions (Docs)
IP Restriction
Kong Traffic Control Plugins
ACL
AI Prompt Guard
Proxy Caching
Rate Limiting
Request Size Limiting
Request Termination
Serverless Plugins
AI Proxy
Kong Analytics & Monitoring Plugins
Prometheus
Zipkin
Kong Transformations Plugins
AI Prompt Decorator
AI Prompt Template
Correlation ID
Request Transformer
Response Transformer
Kong Logging Plugins
Logging Plugins
UDP Logs with EKL Stack
Configure ELK Stack (Docs)
Visualize API Analytics
Creating Custom Kong Plugin with Lua
Custom Plugin Schema
Custom Plugin Handler
Deploy Custom Plugin
Deploy Custom Plugin in Kong (Docs)
Run Custom Plugin
Application Demo
GlobeHopper Architecture
GlobeHopper (App created with Kong API Gateway)
Lua Programming (Optional)
Introduction to Lua
Installing Lua
Hello World in Lua
Data Types in Lua
Comments in Lua
Variables in Lua
Strings in Lua
Math in Lua
If Else in Lua
Loops in Lua
User Input in Lua
Tables in Lua
OS in Lua
Functions in Lua
FileHandling in Lua
CustomModule in Lua
OOP in Lua
Co-Routines in Lua
Metamethods in Lua
What’s next ?
Conclusion
Conclusion