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🦍 The API and AI Gateway

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Manage and secure your APIs and AI services with a central gateway that handles traffic and authentication.

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Install
$ git clone https://github.com/Kong/docker-kong
  $ cd docker-kong/compose/
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🦍 The API and AI Gateway

kong has 43.8k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 5.2k times. kong is written mainly in Lua. It has been in active development since 2014. kong is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are ai, ai-gateway, api-gateway, api-management.

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🦍 The API and AI Gateway

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kong is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is kong free?

Yes. kong is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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kong is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is kong written in?

kong is written mainly in Lua.

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