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Production Deployments

Kong Gateway Operator is Generally Available and suitable for production deployments.

When deploying in production, you may wish to customize your deployment. To learn more, see PodTemplateSpec.

Kong Gateway Operator is built on top of the Operator Framework which means it provides metrics that you’re familiar with from your other operators. See monitoring for more information.

Finally, Kong Gateway Operator is a new product which is being rapidly developed. To keep your deployment up to date see the Kong Gateway Operator upgrade instructions

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