Kong / kong
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Kong is a cloud-native API, LLM, and MCP gateway that proxies, routes, and secures traffic via a plugin architecture.
Why you might care
Suited to teams centralizing microservice and API traffic, with an official Kubernetes Ingress Controller and extensibility through plugins. Adds AI features such as multi-LLM routing and MCP traffic security and analytics, plus load balancing, health checks, and authentication.
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LanguageLua
LicenseApache-2.0
Created2014-11-17 (11y ago)
Last push5d ago
Watchers994
OwnerOrganization
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- 2026-10-24 — #1 daily in lua · +7 ★
- 2026-10-21 — #1 daily in lua · +5 ★
- 2026-10-21 — #8 monthly in lua · +172 ★
- 2026-10-20 — #1 daily in lua · +3 ★
- 2026-10-20 — #8 monthly in lua · +178 ★
GitHub topics
aiai-gatewayapi-gatewayapi-managementapisartificial-intelligencecloud-nativedevopskuberneteskubernetes-ingresskubernetes-ingress-controllerllm-gatewayllm-opsmcpmcp-gatewaymicroservicemicroservicesopenai-proxyreverse-proxyserverless
Links
- GitHub: github.com/Kong/kong
- Homepage: https://konghq.com/install/
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