Contribution guidelines
Common terms in the docs
WORK IN PROGRESS
General terms
Control plane
Data plane
(data plane proxy, data plane instance, data plane node)
Service
(Service object vs service)
Service package, version, implementation
Route
(Route object vs route)
Upstream
(Upstream object vs upstream service)
Runtime
DB-less mode vs database-backed
Hybrid mode
Product and component names
- Kong Konnect platform (Konnect)
- Konnect SaaS
- Kong Mesh (Mesh, service mesh)
- Kong for Kubernetes; Kong on Kubernetes Enterprise
- Kubernetes Ingress Controller/Kong Ingress Controller (KIC)
- decK
- Kong Gateway (gateway, API gateway)
- Kong Gateway (OSS)
- Insomnia
- Kuma
- Dev Portal (developer portal)
- Vitals