This document summarizes a meetup presentation about deploying Kong API gateway with Mesosphere DC/OS. The presentation was given by Shashi Ranjan and Cooper Marcus of Kong and covered how Kong can help manage microservices and act as a central API gateway. It discussed how Kong provides functionality like authentication, security, logging and load balancing through plugins. The document also provided an overview of Kong editions, plugins, and common enterprise installations.

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Deploying Kong with Mesosphere DC/OS
Meetup:
Presented by:
• Shashi Ranjan, Backend Engineer
• Cooper Marcus, Principal Product Manager
October 30, 2017

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Software Response to Complex Demand

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Dilemma: Monolithic to Microservices?

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Solution: Ice Cream Scoop Strategy

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The Uber Case

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Running Microservices
Is like running a city

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Application
Step 1: Let’s get started
Client Load Balancer
Application
CustomersItems
InvoicesOrders

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Step 2: Decoupling Begins
Items
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Customers
Orders
Invoices
Client
(The client can be another service too)

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Step 3: Secure, Protect, Log, etc
Items
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Customers
Orders
Invoices
- Security
- Authentication
- Etc.
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LOGIC
Client
(The client can be another service too)

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Step 4: Decoupling more services
Items
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Customers
Orders
Invoices
- Security
- Authentication
- Etc.
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LOGIC
Load Balancer
Client
(The client can be another service too)

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Step 4: Decoupling more services
Items
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Customers
Orders
Invoices
- Security
- Authentication
- Etc.
MORE
LOGIC
Load Balancer
- Security
- Authentication
- Etc.
MORE
LOGIC
Client
(The client can be another service too)

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Final step: Fragmentation
Items
Client
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Customers
Orders
Invoices
(The client can be another service too)
MORE
LOGIC
Load Balancer MORE
LOGIC
MORE
LOGIC
MORE
LOGIC
Load Balancer

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API Gateway Pattern
Client
(The client can be another service too)
Items
Customers
Orders
Invoices
API Gateway
Authentication
Security
Logging
Transformations
Load-Balancing
...and more.
ABSTRACTION LAYER

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Why Kong API Gateway?
Client
(The client can be another service too)
Items
Customers
Orders
Invoices
Kong
Authentication
Security
Logging
Transformations
Load-Balancing
...and more.
ABSTRACTION LAYER
PLUGINS

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API Gateway Becomes Mission Critical
Enabling Microservice Architectures

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Centralized or Decentralized

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Centralized Common Functionality
KONG Private APIsClient
Partner APIs
Public APIs
FaaS
• Dynamic Load Balancer
• Service Discovery
• Authentication
• Security
• Traffic Control
• Ops
• Logging
• Transformation
Only for Internal Use
Only for Specific Partners
Available to Everybody
AWS Lambda, etc.
Internally and Externally, on centralized or distributed nodes

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Reduce Fragmentation

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Community Edition & Enterprise Edition
● Open-Source
● 4M+ Downloads
● Built on top of NGINX
● Extensible with Plugins (60+ available)
● Sub-millisecond latency on most use-cases
● Cloud-Native & Platform Agnostic
● Fast and Scalable. Up and running in minutes
Millions of Community (CE) downloads across
multiple platforms.
■ 12,000+ Stars in GitHub
■ 70+ Contributors
■ 107 Meetups
■ 8K Community Members

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● Fortune 10 accounts
● Largest E-Commerce Company in Japan
● Major Banks - Canada and Europe
● Major Telecommunications - US and Europe
● Australia Postal
● Major Car Manufacturers
● Governments (including US Government, etc)
● $30M+ funding from Tier 1 investors
Including latest Series B from Andreessen Horowitz.
● Engineering Team
Adding Engineers across the entire platform to
accelerate development efforts for both community
and enterprise solutions.
● Global Support/Customer Success Team
Adding Solution Engineers and Customer Support
Staff in EMEA, APAC, and US to support a growing
global customer base.
Global Enterprise adoption across EMEA, APAC,
US, and Canada.
Community Edition & Enterprise Edition

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Kong Plugins - Authentication

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Kong Plugins - Serverless

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Custom plugins can easily be created to address specific requirements like
Enterprise Authentication, logging, Third-Party integrations and more.
Add powerful functionality to your services through RESTful Interface
curl -X POST http://kong:8001/apis/{id}/plugins/
-d "name=rate-limiting"
-d "config.second=10"
-d "config.hour=50000"
Plugin-Powered Architecture

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Kong Installations

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The Full Platform
Overview of Kong Enterprise
Security & High Availability
Kong Admin
Developer Portal
Analytics
Professional Support

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Technology Overview
NGINX
OpenResty
Clustering & Datastore
Plugins
Admin API
PostgreSQL
or
Cassandra

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Kong Entry Points
Kong ManagementClients consuming services
Proxy
8000
8443
Admin API
8001
8444

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Kong Entities
/apis /plugins /consumers
/consumers/{id}/key-auth
/consumers/{id}/oauth2
...
Core Entities
Plugin Entities

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Demo Time

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Resources:
● https://getkong.org
● https://github.com/Mashape/kong
● https://www.konghq.com/enterprise/
Q&A

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www.GetKong.org
Thank You!