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Kong Gateway

Cloud-native, fast, scalable API gateway

Reverse Proxy & Gateways ★ 43.9k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Kong Gateway is an open-source API gateway built on Nginx that manages, secures, and observes API traffic with a rich plugin ecosystem. It scales from single nodes to large clusters.

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Key features

  • Plugin-driven API management
  • Rate limiting and auth
  • Kubernetes ingress controller
  • Declarative config

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
  • Mature project with 43.9k GitHub stars

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