Introducing Konnect
Konnect unifies and manages APIs, LLMs, events, and microservices with a single, centralized management plane, giving you consistent visibility and control across your entire API ecosystem. It uniquely combines a control plane, managed by Kong and hosted in the cloud, with the versatility of managing the data plane on your terms—either self-managed or through Kong, within your preferred network environment.
Konnect can help you with the following use cases:
- Easily manage Kong Gateway
- Catalog, share, and monetize APIs
- Achieve federated API management with multi-geo support
Konnect architecture
The Konnect platform runs in hybrid mode and provides several hosted Control Plane options to manage all service configurations. The Control Plane propagates those configurations to the Data Plane group, which is composed of Data Plane nodes (and in the case of Kong Mesh, proxies). The individual nodes can be running either on-premise, in cloud-hosted environments, or fully managed by Konnect.
Kong Identity
Secure and authorize access with Kong Identity
Kong Identity enables you to generate, authenticate, and authorize API access using Konnect. It implements OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect and supports plugins like OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 Introspection, and Upstream OAuth.
You can use Kong Identity to:
- Create authorization servers per region
- Issue and validate access tokens
- Integrate secure authentication into your Kong Gateway APIs
