TheKongLaboratory

:showtitle: :doctitle: Kong on Kubernetes with Pulumi

== About === What is in this repo? This repo represents source content for a series of API Gateway and Service Mesh exercises focused on enabling developers and ops personnel with practical local development workflows.

=== Key Concepts

link:https://konghq.com/kong/[Kong API Gateway] is an link:https://konghq.com/learning-center/api-gateway/[API Gateway] and link:https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#what-is-ingress[Ingress Controller]. At it's core, Kong is a link:https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/reverse-proxy-server[reverse proxy] that allows an organization to offer APIs as a product to internal and external clients via a centralized ingress point. An API Gateway truly begins to shine when leveraged to consolidate capabilities such as authentication, link:https://auth0.com/intro-to-iam/what-is-role-based-access-control-rbac/[rbac], session handling, rate limiting, request & response transformation, redirection, load balancing, traffic monitoring, and logging. These advanced routing features offload enforcement, maintenance, and visibility from the application teams, improving their agility and consolidating this functional ownership into a central location for improved global consistency and visibility.

link:https://www.pulumi.com/[Pulumi] is an link:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/devops/deliver/what-is-infrastructure-as-code[Infrastructure as Code] (link:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/devops/deliver/what-is-infrastructure-as-code[IaC]) or link:https://www.pulumi.com/what-is/what-is-infrastructure-as-software/[Infrastructure as Software] (link:https://www.pulumi.com/what-is/what-is-infrastructure-as-software[IaS]) cloud engineering platform. Pulumi supports IaC/IaS patterns using popular programming languages including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, and .NET/C#. At it's heart, the Pulumi ecosystem is a cloud engineering platform and SDK offering that brings together developer, operations, and security teams through a unified software engineering process to accelerate innovation with more confidence via a full suite of link:https://github.com/open-gitops/documents/blob/main/PRINCIPLES.md[Open GitOps] compliant tools. +

=== Laboratory Index See the following sub-modules for examples on how to use this lab yourself. +

• Please note that an empty checkbox indicates planned future content +

• [x] link:QUICK_START.adoc[Platform Infrastructure Local Kong Gateway on Kind]

• [ ] Sample Apps & Kong Ingress Controller

• [ ] Sample Plugin: MTLS

• [ ] Sample Plugin: JWT Auth

• [ ] Sample Plugin: Rate Limiting

• [ ] Sample Plugin: OpenPolicyAgent

• [ ] Sample Auth: Keycloak

• [ ] Kong Consumers

• [ ] Kong Upstreams

• [ ] Kong Manager

• [ ] Kong Developer Portal

• [ ] Kong Resource Provider https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kong[(src)]

• [ ] Publish Kong API Gateway via https://github.com/inlets/inletsctl[Inlets Operator]