GH Repository · Kong
kong
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
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Kong is an API and AI gateway written in Lua, positioned in the agentic ecosystem as an MCP server and MCP gateway. Its topics indicate it also serves as a reverse proxy for microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes ingress, with AI/LLM gateway capabilities including OpenAI proxying.
Reach for it when you need one gateway that handles both traditional API management and AI/LLM or MCP traffic routing.
Use it to
- Proxy and manage microservice APIs
- Route LLM and OpenAI traffic through an AI gateway
- Expose MCP servers behind a gateway
- Run as a Kubernetes ingress controller
- Manage serverless API endpoints
For Platform and DevOps teams managing APIs and AI traffic
- Role
- mcp-server
- Language
- Lua
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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- 5,210
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- 81
- Last push
- 2026-09-07
- Latest release
- 0.3.0 · 2015-06-05
topicsapi-gatewaymcp-gatewayllm-gatewaykubernetesreverse-proxymicroservices