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- Overview of Kong Gateway
- Support
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- Release Notes
- Breaking Changes
- Key Concepts
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- Deployment Topologies
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  - DB-less Deployment
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- Installation Options
  - Overview
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    Kubernetes Deployment Options
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- Running Kong
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- Environment Variables
- Serving a Website and APIs from Kong
- Monitoring
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- Resource Sizing Guidelines
- Blue-Green Deployments
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- Clustering Reference
- Logging
- Configure a gRPC service
- Upgrade and Migration
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    Google Secrets Manager
    
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  - How-To
    
    Securing the Database with AWS Secrets Manager
  - Reference Format
- Dynamic Plugin Ordering
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- Dev Portal
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  - Structure and File Types
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  - Working with Templates
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  - Authentication and Authorization
    
    Basic Auth
    
    Key Auth
    
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    Sessions
    
    Adding Custom Registration Fields
    
    Manage Developers
    
    Developer Roles and Content Permissions
  - Application Registration
    
    Authorization Provider Strategy
    
    Enable Application Registration
    
    Enable Key Authentication for Application Registration
    
    Enable External Authentication
    
    External OAuth2 Support
    
    Set up Okta and Kong for External Oauth
    
    Set up Azure AD and Kong for External Authentication
    
    Manage Applications
  - Customize Dev Portal
    
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    Migrating Templates Between Workspaces
    
    Markdown Rendering Module
    
    Customizing Portal Emails
    
    Adding and Using JavaScript Assets
    
    Single Page App in Dev Portal
    
    Alternate OpenAPI Renderer
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  - Workspaces
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  - Portal API Documentation
- Audit Logging
- Keyring and Data Encryption
- Workspaces
- Consumer Groups
- Event Hooks
- Configure Data Plane Resilience
- About Control Plane Outage Management
- FIPS 140-2
- Authenticate your Kong Gateway Amazon RDS database with AWS IAM
Kong Manager
- Overview
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- Get Started with Kong Manager
- Authentication and Authorization
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  - Workspaces and Teams
  - Reset Passwords and RBAC Tokens
  - Basic Auth
  - LDAP
    
    Configure LDAP
    
    LDAP Service Directory Mapping
  - OIDC
    
    Configure OIDC
    
    OIDC Authenticated Group Mapping
  - Sessions
  - RBAC
    
    Overview
    
    Enable RBAC
    
    Add a Role and Permissions
    
    Create a User
    
    Create an Admin
- Networking Configuration
- Workspaces
- Create Consumer Groups
- Sending Email
Kong Manager Open Source
- Overview
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- Overview
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- Plugin Configuration
- Accessing the Data Store
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- Extending the Admin API
- Writing Tests
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    OpenID Connect with Cognito
  - Authentication Reference
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- Plugin Queuing
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