Kong API Gateway on Debian 13

Kong API Gateway is an open-source **API management and gateway platform** designed to manage, secure, and monitor APIs and microservices. It acts as a gateway between clients and backend services, providing **request routing, load balancing, authentication, rate-limiting, logging, and observability**. Kong supports both **DB-less mode and database-backed mode**, and it is highly extensible through plugins, making it suitable for modern cloud-native and microservices architectures.

Features of Kong API Gateway:

• Routing and proxying of API requests to backend services.
• Load balancing and traffic control for reliable service delivery.
• Authentication and authorization support via plugins (JWT, Key Auth, OAuth 2.0, etc.).
• Rate limiting, quotas, and request throttling to manage API usage.
• Observability with logging, metrics (Prometheus), and tracing for monitoring APIs and services.
• DB-less and database-backed modes for flexible deployment options.
• Plugin architecture for extending functionality and integrating with third-party services.
• Admin API for managing services, routes, plugins, and configuration programmatically.
• Web-based interface (Kong Manager) available in Enterprise Edition for easy administration.
• Open-source, built on Nginx and Lua, allowing high performance and scalable API management.

To check Kong version:

$ kong version

$ http://SERVER_PUBLIC_IP:8000/test/get

Disclaimer: Kong API Gateway is open-source software distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any other company. Kong is provided "as is," without any warranty, express or implied. Users utilize this software at their own risk. The developers and contributors to Kong hold no responsibility for any damages, losses, or consequences resulting from the use of this software. Users are advised to carefully review and comply with licensing terms and any applicable regulations while using Kong.