KONG

Kong Gateway Setup & Deployment: Hands-on experience in installing, configuring, and deploying Kong Gateway across development, test, staging, and production environments.  

 

Kong Architecture Knowledge: Strong understanding of Kong Gateway deployment models including DB-less, database-backed, and hybrid mode.  

 

Containerization & Orchestration: Strong experience in deploying Kong using Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm charts, ingress controller setup, namespace configuration, and environment-specific deployment practices.  

 

Declarative Configuration: Experience in developing and maintaining Kong declarative configuration files using YAML for services, routes, consumers, upstreams, plugins, and certificates.  

 

API Security Setup: Experience in configuring OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API key authentication, rate limiting, CORS, ACLs, and other Kong security plugins.