A Complete Traffic Flow Guide to Using Kong Gateway in Kubernetes

Introduction

In today’s cloud-native ecosystem, managing API traffic efficiently is crucial for application performance and security. As organizations migrate to microservices architectures on Kubernetes, the need for a robust API Gateway becomes paramount. Enter Kong Gateway — a powerful solution that acts as the intelligent traffic director for your Kubernetes cluster.

Having worked with multiple API gateway solutions in production environments, I’ve found Kong Gateway to be exceptionally well-suited for Kubernetes deployments. In this comprehensive guide, I’ll walk you through how Kong Gateway orchestrates traffic flow within a Kubernetes cluster, using a real-world Grafana deployment as our example. Continue reading “A Complete Traffic Flow Guide to Using Kong Gateway in Kubernetes”

How to Build a Successful DevSecOps Pipeline?

Introducing DevSecOps!

With critical DevSecOps services coming to the fore, businesses have actually begun to realize how important it is to ensure security within each stage of the DevOps lifecycle. But still, there are many who do have proper clarity on the difference between DevOps and DevSecOps. No matter, you call it “DevOps” or “DevSecOps,” the term is related to the process of including security practices as a major part of the entire app life cycle. 

DevSecOps, in simple words, means development, security and operations. It’s a process of implementing security practices and actions in the DevOps lifecycle. It’s all about embedding security features and enhanced automation throughout the CI/CD pipeline for removing mistakes and reducing attacks & downtime. 

Continue reading “How to Build a Successful DevSecOps Pipeline?”