• k8s
• IngressGateway
• Kong

k8s/IngressGateway/Kong

• Links https://cloud.konghq.com/au/welcome https://education.konghq.com/learner-dashboard

  • 2026-10 Register github - "https://cloud.konghq.com/au/welcome" - TrainP...

Kong Study Path

• Recommended Study Path
  • Complete the Kong Gateway Foundations (KGAC-101) course.

    • https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/kong-certification

      • Kong Training
        • ✅ (KGLL-115) Getting Started with Kong Konnect Gateway
        • ✅ (KGLL-117) Introduction to APIs and API Management
        • ✅ (KGLL-118) Introduction to Kong Gateway
        • ✅ (KGLL-120) Introduction to Kong Plugins
        • ✅ Kong Gateway Foundations (KGAC - 101) - Free on Kong Academy
          • Lesson 4/1 - 5 , 4 - Plugin

            • (KGAB-101) Claiming Your Digital Badge - https://www.credly.com/badges/3a9c543e-bbd1-41b2-8dff-34e7e46d3bfa/public_url

              • KongGatewayFoundations.png

        • Kong Gateway Operations (KGAC - 201) - Kong Academy subscribers
      • Exam-preperation

        • https://konghq.com/academy/exam-preparation

          • Kong Gateway Certified Associate
            • Learning Labs

              • Learning Lab: Getting Started with Kong Gateway – Services, Routes, Plugins & Consumers (KGLL – 101)

              • Learning Lab: Logging and Analyzing Operational Metrics with Kong (KGLL – 103)
              • Learning Lab: Reduce the Risk of new software versions with Canary deployments (KGLL – 106)

    • https://education.konghq.com/catalog/courses/3188533 - Login training email

  • Finish the Kong Gateway Operations (KGAC-201) course
  • ⏳(KGLL-202) Kong Gateway Installation - 2026-11-05 Start
    • Kong Gateway Installation Overview
    • Deployment Considerations
    • Kong Gateway Configuration Parameters
    • Kong Gateway Installation Lab
    • Knowledge Check
  • Practice hands-on tasks using the optional Kong Academy Learning Labs.
• Exam

  • https://app.trueability.com/ $275 (2026) 75% pass $49 resit 2-week

Overview

• Kong manages API's providing enterprise features
• Multiple k8s integration options
  • Ingress
  • Standalone deployment/service

  • Operator Kong - use CRD's, Auto upgrade and scale - https://developer.konghq.com/operator/

• k8s state for kong - could be k8s configs or PostgeSQL db driven config
  • DB-less mode preferred for simplicity - no dynamic updates
• k8s install - helm charts
• Authorize API clients - OpenID Connect with your IdP

Test config choices

• AutoReahableServices - use MeshTrafficPermissions

• Delta XDS - reduce traffic between CP and DP
• Unified resource naming (experimental)

• Setup helm

  kubectl create namespace kong-mesh-system
  helm repo add kong-mesh https://kong.github.io/kong-mesh-charts
  helm repo update

• kong operator

  • https://developer.konghq.com/operator/get-started/gateway-api/install/

  • Can use k8s certmanager

Cost 2026

• Mesh $4k/m /zone ?
  • Zones define network boundaries (e.g. clusters, VPC's) and connect to global control plane