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Kong Gateway is a platform-agnostic, extensible API, LLM, and MCP gateway. It centralizes proxying, routing, load balancing, health checks, and authentication, with plugins and declarative configuration for traffic policies.
Features and best fit
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Centralize shared traffic controls for services, LLMs, and MCP
A RESTful Admin API or declarative configuration controls routing, load balancing, and health checks. Authentication, authorization, rate limiting, transformations, logging, and monitoring sit alongside multi-provider LLM routing and MCP security and observability.
Sources: [1]
For applying shared policies to microservice and AI traffic
It is a candidate for platform teams standardizing authentication, routing, traffic control, and observation at the entry point to multiple services. Start with an existing API and test required plugins, database mode, and the responsibility boundary with the Kubernetes Ingress Controller.
Sources: [1]
Separate the open-source gateway, commercial Konnect, and deployment models
The README quick start uses Docker Compose with Postgres, while DB-less and hybrid deployments are also available. Kong Inc.'s Konnect Cloud is a commercial subscription with additional features, support, and a managed control plane. The repository uses Apache License 2.0.
Sources: [1]
Official sources
- [1]Kong Gateway README(2026-09-13)
Supplemental curator note
Selected for overcoming a short name that collides with a place name by leading with precise API-gateway and API-management use cases.
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GitHub Topics
- api-gateway
- microservices
- api-management
- serverless
- apis
- reverse-proxy
- cloud-native
- microservice
- devops
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-ingress-controller
- kubernetes-ingress
- Stars
- 44,125
- Forks
- 5,210
- Watchers
- 999
- Open issues
- 81
- Primary language
- Lua
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repository last updated
- Sep 7, 2026
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