Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.10: Advanced Kafka Support, Data Orchestration, & More

Kong Gateway 3.10, the latest Long-Term Support version, introduces significant enhancements to its platform, supported until March 2028. This release includes the ability to expose Kafka topics as REST and SSE APIs, simplifying integration with Kafka by eliminating the need for native Kafka clients. The update also centralizes the management of Redis configurations, reducing redundancy and errors by allowing a single global Redis configuration reference across plugins. The new Request Callout plugin facilitates third-party service interactions, enabling custom authentication scenarios and request augmentation without custom plugin development. Incremental Config Sync, now generally available, optimizes resource usage in hybrid deployments by sending only changed configuration parts to data planes, improving latency and throughput. Additionally, centralized consumer management is introduced to lower operational overhead and optimize resource use by managing consumers outside of data plane configurations. Finally, Kong AI Gateway enhancements aim to improve AI governance and support agentic workflows.

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