Introducing Kong Operator 2.3: AI Gateway & More

Kong Operator 2.3 expands Kubernetes-native management for Kong’s API, AI, Event Gateway, and Dev Portal offerings, with a particular focus on deploying and operating AI Gateway through GitOps workflows. New custom resource definitions allow teams to declaratively configure AI Gateway control planes, LLM providers and models, routing strategies, authentication, consumers, usage attribution, and security policies such as prompt-injection detection and topic allowlisting. The release adds support for TCPRoute, UDPRoute, and GRPCRoute alongside existing HTTPRoute and TLSRoute support, covering both on-premises and Konnect-based gateway deployments. It also extends tag propagation from Gateway API resources to Konnect for multi-tenant traffic ownership and cost tracking, while native HorizontalPodAutoscaler support enables managed scaling for AI and Event Gateway data planes.

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