KONG API GATEWAY MADE PRACTICAL: Build, secure, and automate modern APIs with Kong Gateway, routing, plugins, authentication, rate limits, and observability Kindle Edition

Build secure and reliable APIs with Kong Gateway, from first install to production scale.Teams need a gateway that is predictable under load, clear to operate, and easy to automate. Many guides stop at quick starts, leaving you to guess at routing rules, authentication edge cases, and rollout safety.Kong API Gateway Made Practical gives you a complete, run it today playbook. You will learn deployment models that fit real constraints, the Admin API and core entities, production ready routing and load balancing, and the security, observability, and automation that keep platforms healthy.choose the right model, database, db less, hybrid, or Konnect, then install cleanly on Docker and Kubernetes with Helm and Kong Ingress Controllerwork with services, routes, upstreams, and targets, verify with curl, and adopt expression based routing with priorities and regex rulesload balance with active and passive health checks, consistent hashing, and real stickiness that survives restartsset correct DNS resolvers, keepalive pools, and timeouts to prevent flaps and tail latencyapply API key and JWT for internal services, use consumer groups and ACLs, and integrate OpenID Connect with real IdPs, scopes, and token validationenable client mTLS and upstream mTLS, manage certificates and SNIs, and run safe rotation checksenforce Redis backed rate limits with useful identifiers, roll out canary and blue green changes with weighted routes and health probespick safe defaults for timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers that protect upstreams without hiding failurespublish Prometheus metrics and build a focused Grafana dashboard for gateways, add end to end OpenTelemetry traces, and ship structured logs with correlation IDs to your SIEMlock down the Admin API with RBAC and Workspaces, use trusted and real client IPs for limits and audits, manage secrets across OSS, Enterprise, and vaultsoperate Kubernetes Gateway API without footguns, preserve client IP with AWS ALB and NLB, apply GKE and AKS notes that matter, and run multi namespace teams with KIC and Workspacesadopt GitOps, run decK in CI for drift detection and pull request checks, manage Kong and Konnect with Terraform, and plan safe upgrades and router migrationsextend Kong with Lua plugins using the PDK and clear test patterns, or use the Go plugin server and Go PDK when that is the right fitmove to Konnect with a managed control plane, organize runtime groups, offer a Dev Portal, and migrate from self managed at a steady paceThis is a code heavy guide. Working Bash, YAML, JSON, Lua, and Go snippets show installs, configs, decK and Terraform workflows, and test commands that you can drop into real projects.Grab your copy today and build an API platform your team can trust. Read more