Event streaming allows companies to build more scalable and loosely coupled real-time applications supporting massive concurrency demands and simplifying the construction of services. At the same time, API management provides capabilities to securely control the upstream services consumption, including the event processing infrastructure. This session shows how Kong Konnect Enterprise can complement Kafka Event Streaming, exposing it to new and external consumers while applying specific and critical policies to control its consumption, including API key, OAuth/OIDC and others for authentication, rate limiting, caching, log processing, etc.

1. Exposing and Controlling
Kafka Event Streaming
with Kong Konnect
Enterprise
THE CLOUD CONNECTIVITY COMPANY

2. Welcome
Claudio Acquaviva
Solutions Architect,
Kong

3. Agenda
● API management for microservices with Kong and typical policies including rate limiting, caching, log
processing, authentication.
● How Kong Konnect exposes and controls a Kafka Event Streaming Platform
● Demos:
○ REST request transformation into Kafka messages in a Kafka topic.
○ Publish request and response logs to a Kafka topic.
● Q&A

4. Accelerate Your Journey to Decentralization
Increase pace of innovation, gain new revenue streams, and lower TCO
Single source of truth
with declarative configuration
of Kubernetes and Gateways
Support yesterday, today and tomorrow
through flexible platform
MONOLITH
1 Service
SERVICES
5 Services
MICROSERVICES
100+ microservices SERVICE MESH
1,000+ microservices
in a service mesh EMERGING PATTERNS
1,000,000+
functions in
serverless
Become technology agnostic
across any cloud, orchestrator, platform or protocol
Fast and seamless scale
through lightweight proxies
Instantly add policies
via out-of-the-box plugins

5. KONG KONNECT

6. 6
On-Prem
Control Plane (CP)
Data Plane (DP)
Data Plane (DP)
Data Plane (DP)
Data Plane (DP)
Data Plane (DP)
Microservices
Microservices
Microservices
API
Consumers
API
Consumers
API
Consumers
Admins
Kong Konnect - Hybrid Cloud API Gateway Deployment

7. Kong Konnect - Extensibility

8. Microservice Architecture
Microservice 1
Kafka Broker
Microservice 2
ESB
Legacy Apps
Topic 1 Topic 2
Message Message
Message
Service Communication

9. Microservice Architecture
Edge Computing and Event Streaming
Microservice 1
Kafka Broker
Microservice 2
ESB
Legacy Apps
Topic 1 Topic 2
Current Apps Users 3rd Party Apps
Kong API Gateway Identity Provider
Message
Message
Message
REST, gRPC, WebSocket requests
OIDC Grants
mTLS
encrypted tunnel
Rate Limiting,
Caching,
Log Processing,
API Keys, etc.

10. Microservice 1
Microservice 2
Microservice N
Kong Konnect
API Gateway
API
Consumer
Analytics
Kong API Gateway and Kafka Logs
Kong Enterprise Vitals
Kafka Broker
Topic 1 Topic 2
Kafka Upstream
plugin
Confluent Control Center
Kafka Log
plugin

11. Kubernetes Pod
Kubernetes Cluster
Kubernetes Pod
Microservice 1
Sidecar
Kong Mesh Control Panel
Kubernetes Kong Ingress Controller
Service Mesh and Event Streaming
Kafka Broker
Topic 1 Topic 2
Kubernetes Pod
Microservice 2
Sidecar
Sidecar
Sidecar
Zero-trust
Network

12. Exposing and Controlling
Kafka Event Streaming
with Kong Konnect
Enterprise
THE CLOUD CONNECTIVITY COMPANY