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Kong API Gateway

Master Kong API Gateway from scratch and learn to design, secure, and manage APIs with high performance and scalability in cloud-native environments.
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Kong API Gateway – Build, Secure, and Manage APIs for Modern Applications – Online Course
 
Kong API Gateway: Build, Secure, and Manage APIs is an all-inclusive, practical course designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and API architects aiming to master API management in microservices and cloud-native environments. This course equips you with the knowledge and skills to design, deploy, and secure APIs using Kong, one of the most powerful and popular open-source API gateways.
 
At its core, Kong API Gateway is a lightweight, fast, and extensible API gateway and microservice management layer built on NGINX and Lua. It helps manage, monitor, and control API traffic while providing advanced capabilities such as authentication, rate-limiting, load balancing, logging, and analytics. Kong is cloud-native, highly performant, and integrates seamlessly with containerized environments like Kubernetes.
 
This course begins with the fundamentals of API gateways and their role in modern application architectures, then dives deep into Kong’s architecture, its installation, configuration, and plugin ecosystem. You’ll learn how to expose APIs securely, apply policies, monitor API traffic, and scale Kong in production environments. With hands-on labs and real-world projects, you’ll gain practical experience configuring Kong in hybrid, containerized, and multi-cloud environments.
 
How to Use This Course
 
To maximize your learning:
  1. Start with fundamentals: Learn API management basics and understand why Kong is a leading choice.
  2. Practice in real-world scenarios: Follow the hands-on labs to configure routes, services, and plugins in Kong.
  3. Experiment with plugins: Explore Kong’s plugin ecosystem to implement security, traffic control, and observability.
  4. Integrate with DevOps workflows: Connect Kong with CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and service meshes.
  5. Deploy and scale in production: Learn HA setups, clustering, RBAC security, and monitoring for enterprise-grade usage.
By the end of this course, you will be able to design secure, scalable, and robust API gateways that meet modern microservices and enterprise requirements.

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Course Objectives Back to Top
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
 
  1. Understand the role and architecture of Kong API Gateway.
  2. Install and configure Kong in various environments (Docker, Kubernetes, bare-metal).
  3. Create and manage APIs, services, and routes in Kong.
  4. Implement authentication, rate limiting, and security policies using plugins.
  5. Integrate Kong with databases like Postgres and Cassandra.
  6. Deploy Kong in Kubernetes with Ingress Controller and Helm charts.
  7. Monitor and log API traffic using Kong and external tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
  8. Apply DevOps best practices for CI/CD integration with Kong.
  9. Configure Kong for high availability, clustering, and production-grade scaling.
  10. Manage enterprise features like RBAC, Service Mesh (Kuma), and declarative configuration with Kong Gateway.
Course Syllabus Back to Top
Course Syllabus
 
Module 1: Introduction to API Gateways and Kong
  • What is an API Gateway?
  • Microservices and API Management Challenges
  • Overview of Kong API Gateway
Module 2: Installing and Setting up Kong
  • Kong Open-Source vs Kong Enterprise
  • Installing Kong (Docker, Linux, Kubernetes)
  • Configuring Databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra)
Module 3: Core Concepts in Kong
  • Services, Routes, and Upstreams
  • Load Balancing and Service Discovery
  • Hands-On API Proxy Setup
Module 4: Plugins and Extensions
  • Introduction to Kong Plugins
  • Authentication (Key Auth, JWT, OAuth2)
  • Rate Limiting and Request Transformation
  • Custom Plugins with Lua
Module 5: Kong with Kubernetes
  • Kong Ingress Controller
  • Deploying Kong with Helm Charts
  • Service Mesh Integration (Kuma)
Module 6: Securing APIs
  • SSL/TLS Configuration and Certificates
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Securing Internal vs External APIs
Module 7: Monitoring and Observability
  • Logging APIs with Kong
  • Integration with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Traffic Analysis and Metrics
Module 8: Scaling Kong in Production
  • Clustering and High Availability Setup
  • Declarative vs Database-Backed Configuration
  • Optimizing Performance and Throughput
Module 9: DevOps and CI/CD Integration
  • Automating Kong with Declarative Configs (YAML)
  • Integrating with GitOps and CI/CD Tools
  • API Versioning and Lifecycle Management
Module 10: Advanced Features and Use Cases
  • Kong Gateway Enterprise Features
  • Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployments
  • API Monetization and Analytics
Module 11: Real-World Projects
  • Secure Public API Gateway with JWT and Rate Limiting
  • Internal API Gateway for Microservices in Kubernetes
  • Building CI/CD API Management Workflow with Kong
Module 12: Kong Interview Preparation
 
  • Top Questions and Best Practices
Certification Back to Top

Upon completion, learners receive a Certificate of Completion in Kong API Gateway from Uplatz. This certification validates your expertise in modern API management, securing APIs, scaling Kong in production, and integrating it into DevOps pipelines. It demonstrates practical experience with real-world projects and enhances your credibility for roles like API Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Cloud Architect. The certification is highly valued in cloud-native development and API-driven industries.

Career & Jobs Back to Top
Kong API Gateway skills are highly in demand in API-driven organizations, SaaS platforms, fintech, e-commerce, and enterprises adopting microservices. With companies relying on secure and efficient API management, roles such as:
  • API Gateway Engineer
  • DevOps Engineer (API & Cloud)
  • API Security Specialist
  • Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
  • Cloud/Platform Engineer
  • Microservices/API Architect
are actively seeking professionals with Kong expertise. Organizations like Netflix, PayPal, Expedia, and healthcare/finance enterprises use Kong to manage APIs at scale. Freelancers and consultants can also leverage these skills for API gateway setup in startups and mid-size companies. By mastering Kong, you become equipped to design API infrastructures critical for digital transformation and cloud-native applications.
Interview Questions Back to Top
1. What is Kong API Gateway and why is it used?
Kong is an open-source, cloud-native API Gateway used to manage, secure, and monitor APIs. It is lightweight, scalable, and integrates easily with Kubernetes and microservices.
 
2. How does Kong differ from traditional API gateways?
Unlike traditional gateways, Kong is built on NGINX and Lua, supports plugins, and is cloud-native, making it ideal for containerized and microservices environments.
 
3. What are Services and Routes in Kong?
Services represent upstream APIs, and Routes define how Kong exposes them through endpoints. Routes map client requests to services.
 
4. How do plugins work in Kong?
Plugins are modular components attached to services, routes, or globally, enabling features like authentication, logging, rate-limiting, and request transformation.
 
5. How can you secure APIs in Kong?
By implementing TLS/SSL, authentication (JWT, OAuth2), rate-limiting, RBAC, and configuring access control for internal and external APIs.
 
6. What is the Kong Ingress Controller?
It allows Kubernetes users to use Kong as an ingress controller for routing external traffic to services inside a cluster.
 
7. How do you deploy Kong in high availability?
By configuring Kong clusters with multiple nodes, enabling DB replication, load balancing, and autoscaling in Kubernetes.
 
8. What’s the difference between declarative and database-backed modes in Kong?
Declarative mode uses YAML configuration (DB-less), while database-backed mode stores configurations in PostgreSQL/Cassandra for dynamic updates.
 
9. How can Kong integrate with CI/CD pipelines?
By automating configuration deployments with YAML, GitOps workflows, and tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
 
10. What are typical real-world use cases for Kong?
Public API gateways, internal microservice gateways, API monetization, security enforcement, and hybrid cloud API management.
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