Kong is an open-source API gateway and reverse proxy that manages traffic, authentication, rate limiting, and request transformation for microservices and cloud-native applications. It now includes AI gateway capabilities for routing and managing requests to LLM services and AI models. Developers use Kong to centralize API management, add security and observability layers, deploy as a Kubernetes ingress controller, or proxy traffic to AI services like OpenAI.

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