Best Open Source API Gateway for your micro-services setup
September 14, 2022
Best Open Source API Gateway for your micro-services setup
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)
We use Kong as an API Gateway for our Back-end API services. Kong sits behind AWS ALB and in front of our API services. We use Kong to authenticate all the requests, rate limiting, bot detection, request/response transformation, etc. For authentication, we use OAuth2.0 primarily and ApiKey auth for other use cases.
- Mapping requests to back-end services
- Plugins for almost everything
- It's super fast
- Logging plugins need more explanation
- Monitoring plugins can also be made a bit more simple to use
- Online Documentation in general
- OAuth Plugin
- API Gateway implementation with Services and Routes
- Request / Response transform plugins
- Kong helped us quickly setup micro services
- Domain based request routing
- OAuth plugin for centralized authentication
We haven't used anything else.
Do you think Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Kong Gateway Community (Open Source)'s feature set?
Yes
Did Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) again?
Yes