Kong: Becoming a King of API Gateways

by Jose Ramon Huerga, Alex Kovalevych, Robert Williams Buchanan

This book is useful for IT architects, DevOps engineers, CTOs and security experts willing to understand how to use Kong to create and expose APIs. Even if you are not already familiar with Kong, it will only take a few minutes to create your first API. By the end of this book, you will understand how • Use an API gateway to simplify and improve the security of your microservices architecture • Write Kong plugins with Lua • Deploy Kong and Cassandra in a multi-region environment • Use load balancing features You don’t need to know Kong to read this book! You only need to have a basic understanding of REST, JSON and HTTP, but you don’t need an in-depth knowledge because Kong’s mission is to provide easy API publishing. You will also need a modern Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge or Apple Safari. All of the code for the sample project in this book can be found

258 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2018

Reviews

[Shai Sachs · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a reasonably good introduction to Kong, especially its APIs and the various extensibility options it provides. The language is rather awkward, with some particularly drawn-out and convoluted metaphors that often get in the way of the text. There's also some unusual and in some cases plainly misleading commentary on the larger microservices ecosystem surrounding Kong - that could have been excised altogether. As far as I can tell, there are actually no other books providing Kong introductions, so this one will have to do... but it's surely possible to improve upon it!