Kong Gateway
Open source API gateway, built on NGINX, that routes, secures and transforms traffic to APIs through plugins, with a Kong Konnect SaaS option.
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Kong Gateway is an API gateway that routes traffic to APIs and applies security, authentication, transformation and analytics through plugins. It is built on NGINX, and its source code is written in Lua. Docker images and deb and rpm packages are the install routes the current docs name. Once installed, the data plane serves traffic continuously, and PostgreSQL is the database the docs name. A web interface, Kong Manager, is available for managing it.
Worth knowing
The source is Apache-2.0, but Kong also sells an Enterprise edition, which needs a Kong Gateway license key supplied through an environment variable when it starts. Kong Konnect is the vendor’s SaaS platform for running the gateway without any infrastructure to manage.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-29: links, Built on
konghq.com/products/kong-gateway - 2026-10-29: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
github.com/Kong/kong - 2026-10-29: links, Categories
developer.konghq.com/gateway/ - 2026-10-29: Maintainer, Maintained by, Headquarters
konghq.com/privacy - 2026-10-29: First release
github.com/Kong/kong/blob/master/CHANGELOG-OLD.md - 2026-10-29: Current major version
github.com/Kong/kong/releases - 2026-10-29: Last release
github.com/Kong/kong/releases/tag/3.9.4 - 2026-10-29: License, Admin interface
github.com/Kong/kong/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-29: Databases
developer.konghq.com/gateway/configuration/ - 2026-10-29: Runs as
developer.konghq.com/gateway/deployment-topologies/ - 2026-10-29: Install with
developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/ - 2026-10-29: Contributors
github.com/Kong/kong/graphs/contributors