Layer7 API Security vs. Kong Konnect

Well suited for publishing internal services with very high security, protecting against attacks, and managing on-demand load. Also good for transform messages and SQL to Rest services. Not appropriate for business logic implementation.

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Using Kong [Konnect]'s declarative settings, a user may control traffic, automate deployment, and maintain container-based software after it's deployed. In addition, it handles the whole lifecycle of service management. Installation, management, and operation of Kong [Konnects]'s cloud-native connection runtimes may be performed in any cloud or Kubernetes provider environment, as well as on-premises environments. In order to optimise their services and transactions, users may keep track of their services and transactions in real-time via real-time monitoring.

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• SOAP to Rest / Rest to SOAP web services transformation.
• Secure authorization and authetication (JWT, OpenIP Connect, OAuth, SAML and more). WASP Features as injection protection.
• Easy rule writing without coding.

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• Application orchestration
• Error tracing
• Analyzing traffic
• Load balancing

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• It would be nice to have an integration with services like Github for managing projects and versions.

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• Community support
• Sample projects for easy integration

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The Layer7 API Management is a great solution, but, sometimes the documentation is not clear or has lack of examples.

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The support team is good and the response time is reasonable, but (there is always a but), when support inquiries are made by someone experienced, and the question is not trivial, it is boring and takes a long time to get the case escalated to the next level of support.

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We evaluated 3 tools and decided on Layer7 API Management because it had the shortest implementation times and fastest learning curve, without losing power of customization and scalability.

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• Very fast implementation and is easy to learn & use.

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• Increased application efficiency
• Reduced system downtown
• Significantly improved error resolution

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