Kong Enterprise Primary Use Case

AmitKanodia - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud & Integration CoE Head at Capgemini

I lead the integration practices in my organization and have been working in integration for the past 16 years, managing API integrations with various API manager tools such as Kong Enterprise.

We are primarily using Kong for the API gateway functionality. For example, we've had a couple of mobile applications with outbound traffic where we would use the Kong Enterprise gateway to expose the API by applying authorization, authentication, and other security policies.

We have also used Kong for role-based access control mechanism (RBAC) and integrated it with our enterprise directory in order provide it with this form of access control.

There was another particular use case in which we performed some customization, as well. In that scenario, we wrote a Lua script on top of Kong to add an AppDynamics plugin to our web server, for observability and monitoring purposes. 

Kong has been used over a large user base, not only because it's an enterprise application, but also because the mobile applications we worked with were B2C-based in the retail industry, so the number of users was quite high.

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Paramesh Ande - PeerSpot reviewer
Pega Solution Architect at Rabobank

My company uses Kong Enterprise for ISC, so if we need data in one place or one application, we use the solution to retrieve the data with the help of REST API.

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Thiago-Lopes - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Itau Unibanco S.A.

It serves as an API gateway and microservices management platform, facilitating the creation, deployment, and oversight of APIs and microservices. It serves as a solution for measuring requests, managing upstreams, and handling internal APIs within the bank.

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Karthick Sampangi - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Head - Enterprise Integration & Process Automation at Happiest Minds Technologies

We had worked for a client from the travel industry who wanted to propose an API manager. They had built microservices on Java and another integration tool. They wanted to apply policies, register their APIs in the API manager, and enforce policies and plugins, like client ID, client secret, throttling, rate limiting, and protocol transformation. The client wanted to apply these things to their APIs.

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RajeshKumar20 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at Team Computers

My company gave Kong Enterprise to only one company in the manufacturing sector, and now we are in talks with another manufacturing company.

Kong Enterprise is very useful, especially for IoT applications. Palo Alto Networks is also good for IoT applications. Kong Enterprise has a great licensing model. I am scanning capabilities, making it a good tool for infrastructures.

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Yogesh Khandelwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Api Solution Architecture Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use the solution for managing microservices and in-built APIs.

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ItielMaayan - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Architect at AT&T

A central API gateway solution.

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Non-Corporate Consultant at Absa Group Ltd

Our primary use case for this solution is API management.

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Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

My company is a financial company involved in credit card processing. We use the solution for internal IT secure gateway. 

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KM
Director Of Engineering at INtegralzone

We deploy this solution to our customers who are enterprise companies. We are partners with Kong and I'm the director of engineering. 

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SA
Head of Digital Delivery at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We define our enterprise architect and Kong has been selected as an API integration layer solution. We deploy in some of the markets if they're ready to go, and some of the markets are not really ready because we have 10 different markets at the moment. It's an API integration layer so that we can expedite our microservices to the market.

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AP
Manager Information Systems at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Kong Enterprise was used for standard API gateway use cases for Microarchitecture.

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AY
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have several microservices that are secure using Kong Enterprise. Our microservices are managed through Kong Enterprise API management.

We have integrated with IDP to secure it. We use multiple plugins that are bundled with Kong Enterprise.

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BT
Digital Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We mostly use this as an intrusion prevention system.

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SD
Vice President – Technology and Architecture at a venture capital & private equity firm with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case of this solution was a secure API Gateway hosted on public cloud infrastructure. The  manageability, deployment architecture options and scalability were key considerations. Kong is great at organising our API ecosystem and providing the required manageability, scalability observability and  security.

I'm the vice president of technology and architecture and we are customers of Kong Enterprise. 

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