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Third Party Tools

These are services which are used in day to day operation of Kong Gateway. Use of these services may be optional, or they may be required by certain plugins.

Unless otherwise noted, Kong supports the last 2 versions any third party tool, plus the current managed version if available.

Some third party tools below do not have a version number. These tools are managed services and Kong provides compatibility with the currently released version

Data Stores

Kong interacts with multiple data stores during normal operation. The following stores have been tested by Kong:

Postgres 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora
Redis 6, 7, AWS Elasticache
InfluxDB 1
Kafka 3.3, 3.2, Confluent Cloud

Vaults

Kong allows you to store secret values in external vaults. The following versions have been tested by Kong:

HashiCorp Vault
1.12
AWS Secrets Manager
Google Cloud Secret Manager

Service Mesh

Kong Ingress Controller has been tested against the following Service Mesh versions:

Kong Mesh
2.0
Istio
1.16, 1.15, 1.14

Metrics

Kong Ingress Controller has been tested against the following metrics providers:

Prometheus 2.4, 2.37
statsd 0.9
OpenTelemetry
Zipkin 2.23, 2.22

Log Providers

Kong Ingress Controller has been tested against the following log providers:

Splunk
Datadog
Loggly

S3 Compatible APIs

Any S3 compatible API is available for use when working with remote file storage. The following have been tested by Kong:

AWS S3
MinIO

Identity Providers

Kong is expected to work with the following third party identity providers (IDP) when using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) plugin:

  • Auth0

  • AWS Cognito

  • Connect2id

  • Curity

  • Dex

  • Gluu

  • Google

  • IdentityServer

  • Keycloak

  • Microsoft Azure Active Directory

  • Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services

  • Microsoft Live Connect

  • Okta

  • OneLogin

  • OpenAM

  • PayPal

  • PingFederate

  • Salesforce

  • WSO2

  • Yahoo!

AI Providers

Kong AI Gateway can integrate with the following AI providers through its AI plugins: