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 🌟

Course Overview:

Welcome to the ultimate guide to mastering Kong, the robust API Gateway that stands at the forefront of microservices architecture. This course is meticulously crafted for developers, architects, and DevOps professionals who aim to harness the power of Kong to manage their APIs with finesse, security, and scalability. By the end of this journey, you'll be equipped to build, deploy, and manage efficient API gateways using Kong.

What You Will Learn:

🔹 Installing Kong: Get hands-on experience with setting up Kong via Docker, ensuring a smooth start to your API journey.

🔹 Interacting with Kong via Konga: Discover the power of Konga, an open-source GUI for interacting with the Kong Admin API, simplifying the configuration and management of your Kong instance.

🔹 Interacting Kong via REST API: Master the art of creating services, routes, consumers, and plugins through Kong's powerful REST APIs, enabling you to orchestrate your APIs with precision.

🔹 Microservices Abstraction: Learn how Kong acts as a single entry point for all backend services, revolutionizing the way you develop, deploy, and manage your microservices architecture.

🔹 Security and Authentication: Dive into the various security features of Kong, including SSL/TLS termination, OAuth2.0, JWT, API keys, and more, to ensure your APIs are secure and accessible only to authorized users.

🔹 Traffic Control: Gain insights into controlling traffic flow with rate limiting, request size limiting, and circuit breakers, ensuring your services remain responsive under varying loads.

🔹 Analytics and Monitoring: Utilize Kong's real-time analytics and monitoring capabilities to track API performance, usage patterns, and gain actionable insights for optimization.

🔹 AI Gateway with Multi-LLM Support: Explore how you can integrate one or more Large Language Models (LLMs) into your products using Kong, ensuring a scalable, high-performance solution for AI capabilities.

🔹 High Availability: Ensure the resilience of your API gateway with Kong's support for clustering, which guarantees high availability even in case of node failures.

🔹 Load Balancing: Distribute incoming API traffic intelligently across multiple backend services to enhance performance and reliability.

🔹 Request and Response Transformations: Learn how Kong can dynamically transform requests and responses, such as modifying headers, to fit your specific use cases.

🔹 Decoupling: Discover how Kong's decoupling capabilities allow for seamless updates and changes to the microservice architecture without disrupting client applications.

🔹 Extending Kong via Custom Plugins in Lua: Extend Kong's functionality by creating custom plugins in Lua, tailoring Kong to meet your unique needs.

Bonus Module: Learn Lua Programming Language 🛠️ To fully leverage the potential of Kong, we will embark on a brief journey into the Lua programming language. This will empower you to write custom plugins and scripts, enhancing the capabilities of your API gateway.

Why Choose This Course?

• Expert Instructor: Arnab Das has extensive experience in API management and is adept at using Kong in real-world scenarios. You'll benefit from his expertise throughout the course.

• Hands-On Learning: This course is designed to be interactive, with practical exercises that allow you to apply what you learn directly to your Kong projects.

• Comprehensive Curriculum: From installation to high availability and beyond, this course covers all aspects of managing APIs with Kong.

• Community Support: Join a community of like-minded professionals and learners who are also on their journey to mastering API management.

Embark on your journey to becoming an expert in API management with Kong today! 🚀