Kong API Gateway effectively integrates with Consul for Service Discovery to enhance flexible routing policies like Canary Releases, A/B testing, and Blue-Green deployments, particularly in Kubernetes environments using Kong for Kubernetes (K4K8S) and Consul Service Discovery on an EKS cluster. This integration allows for the implementation of various protective policies for Kubernetes services exposed to external consumers, including rate limiting and OAuth/OIDC grants. The article outlines a five-step process for configuring Consul and Kong for Kubernetes, involving DNS service configuration, deploying current and canary releases, registering Consul services, and creating external Kubernetes services. The process concludes with registering a Kong Ingress for the external service to manage traffic and apply policies, with an emphasis on testing the setup and exploring additional policy implementations using Kong's extensive plugin offerings.