Kong: Api Gateway From Zero To Hero

Master the Art of API Management with Kong - Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building Secure, Scalable, and Efficient APIs

What you'll learn

Introduction: Understand the benefits of using Kong in our full-stack application

Fundamentals of API Management: Understanding the basics of APIs and how Kong API Gateway facilitates their management

Installation and Configuration: How to install Kong API Gateway and configure it for different environments

Managing Services and Routes: Creating and managing services and routes within Kong

Securing APIs: Implementing security measures such as authentication, authorization, and encryption to protect APIs

Learn AI Gateway with Multi-LLM Support: For Generative AI Developers

Traffic Control: Techniques for controlling and optimizing the flow of API traffic, including rate limiting and load balancing

Monitoring and Analytics: Setting up monitoring tools to track API performance and analyze usage data

Plugin Development: Learning how to extend Kong’s functionality with custom plugins written in Lua

Best Practices: Understanding best practices for API management and operations within Kong

Requirements

No programming experience is required, You will learn everything you need to know

Description

In this course, you will learn Kong, Kong API Gateway is a powerful tool for managing APIs in a microservices architecture. Here are some common use cases for Kong API Gateway and things we are going to cover in this course.Installing Kong: Installing Kong via DockerInteracting with Kong via Konga: Open-Source GUI to Kong Admin APIInteracting Kong via REST API: create services, Routes, Consumers, and plugins in Kong via REST APIs.Microservices Abstraction: It acts as a single entry point for all backend services, simplifying the development, deployment, and management of systems.Security and Authentication: Kong can manage security concerns like SSL/TLS termination, OAuth2.0, JWT, API keys, and more, ensuring secure access to your services.Traffic Control: With features like rate limiting, request size limiting, and circuit breakers, Kong helps control the traffic flow to your services.Analytics and Monitoring: Kong provides real-time analytics and monitoring capabilities, allowing you to track API performance and usage patterns.AI Gateway with Multi-LLM Support: This allows developers who want to integrate one or more LLMs into their products to be more productive and ship AI capabilities faster while offering a solution to architects and platform teams that ensures visibility, control, and compliance on every AI request sent by the teams. And because it’s built on top of Kong Gateway, it will be possible to orchestrate AI flows in the cloud or on self-hosted LLMs with the best performance and the lowest latency, which are critical in AI-based applications.High Availability: Kong supports clustering for high availability, ensuring that the API gateway remains operational even if some nodes fail.Load Balancing: It can distribute incoming API traffic across multiple backend services, improving performance and reliability.Request and Response Transformations: Kong can modify requests and responses on the fly, such as adding, removing, or modifying headers.Decoupling: By decoupling the client-facing API endpoints from the underlying microservice architecture, Kong allows for seamless updates and changes to the services without affecting the clients.Extending Kong via Creating Custom Plugins in Lua: Creating custom plugins in Lua for Kong API Gateway allows you to extend its functionality to suit your specific needs.Learn Lua (Optional): We are going to learn Lua Programming Language.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Outline

Lecture 2 What is Kong (Docs)

Lecture 3 Kong Overview

Lecture 4 About Me

Lecture 5 Coding Resources

Lecture 6 Making the Best Use of This Course

Section 2: Installation

Lecture 7 Install WSL

Lecture 8 Install Docker

Lecture 9 Install Kong via Docker (Docs)

Lecture 10 Docker Compose Code

Lecture 11 Useful Docker Commands

Lecture 12 Install Kong Gateway

Lecture 13 Konga Direct Installation (Optional)

Lecture 14 Install PostgreSQL Database Directly (Optional)

Lecture 15 Install pgAdmin Directly (Optional)

Lecture 16 Exploring Kong Database

Lecture 17 Connectiong Kong with Konga

Lecture 18 Required Ports (Docs)

Section 3: API Endpoint Using FastAPI (Optional)

Lecture 19 Introduction to FastAPI

Lecture 20 GitHub Repo (Docs)

Lecture 21 Create an API Endpoint using FastAPI

Section 4: Postman

Lecture 22 Introduction

Lecture 23 Postman Installation

Lecture 24 Add a FastAPI Application

Lecture 25 Adding API Endpoint to Postman

Section 5: Kong

Lecture 26 Kong Manager

Lecture 27 Kong Service

Lecture 28 Kong Route

Lecture 29 Kong Consumers

Lecture 30 Kong Plugins

Lecture 31 Kong Upstreams

Section 6: Kong Admin API

Lecture 32 Kong Admin API

Section 7: Konga (Optional)

Lecture 33 Konga UI

Section 8: Kong Authentication Plugins

Lecture 34 Basic Authentication

Lecture 35 HMAC Authentication

Lecture 36 HMAC Authentication Errors (Docs)

Lecture 37 Key Authentication

Lecture 38 Key Authentication Tips (Docs)

Lecture 39 JWT Authentication

Lecture 40 OAuth 2.0 Authentication

Section 9: Kong Security Plugins

Lecture 41 Bot Detection

Lecture 42 Kong Regular Expressions (Docs)

Lecture 43 IP Restriction

Section 10: Kong Traffic Control Plugins

Lecture 44 ACL

Lecture 45 AI Prompt Guard

Lecture 46 Proxy Caching

Lecture 47 Rate Limiting

Lecture 48 Request Size Limiting

Lecture 49 Request Termination

Section 11: Serverless Plugins

Lecture 50 AI Proxy

Section 12: Kong Analytics & Monitoring Plugins

Lecture 51 Prometheus

Lecture 52 Zipkin

Section 13: Kong Transformations Plugins

Lecture 53 AI Prompt Decorator

Lecture 54 AI Prompt Template

Lecture 55 Correlation ID

Lecture 56 Request Transformer

Lecture 57 Response Transformer

Section 14: Kong Logging Plugins

Lecture 58 Logging Plugins

Lecture 59 UDP Logs with EKL Stack

Lecture 60 Configure ELK Stack (Docs)

Lecture 61 Visualize API Analytics

Section 15: Creating Custom Kong Plugin with Lua

Lecture 62 Custom Plugin Schema

Lecture 63 Custom Plugin Handler

Lecture 64 Deploy Custom Plugin

Lecture 65 Deploy Custom Plugin in Kong (Docs)

Lecture 66 Run Custom Plugin

Section 16: Application Demo

Lecture 67 GlobeHopper Architecture

Lecture 68 GlobeHopper (App created with Kong API Gateway)

Section 17: Lua Programming (Optional)

Lecture 69 Introduction to Lua

Lecture 70 Installing Lua

Lecture 71 Hello World in Lua

Lecture 72 Data Types in Lua

Lecture 73 Comments in Lua

Lecture 74 Variables in Lua

Lecture 75 Strings in Lua

Lecture 76 Math in Lua

Lecture 77 If Else in Lua

Lecture 78 Loops in Lua

Lecture 79 User Input in Lua

Lecture 80 Tables in Lua

Lecture 81 OS in Lua

Lecture 82 Functions in Lua

Lecture 83 FileHandling in Lua

Lecture 84 CustomModule in Lua

Lecture 85 OOP in Lua

Lecture 86 Co-Routines in Lua

Lecture 87 Metamethods in Lua

Lecture 88 What's next ?

Section 18: Conclusion

Lecture 89 Conclusion

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