Jan 3, 2022Setting Up a Load Balancer With HAProxyThis article will cover few important things to be considered when using HAProxy as a load balancer with the sample configurations for each of these points. 1) Handling TCP Requests HAProxy is able to handle both TCP and HTTP API traffic. Below is a basic LB configuration to redirect the traffic reaching the LB…Haproxy5 min readHaproxy5 min read
Nov 12, 2021Mock the API in Kong without Coding1) Introduction This documentation describe the steps to setup a mock REST API in Kong API gateway without writing a single line of code. We use few of the many available plugins in Kong to setup this API flow solely using configurations. This can be useful to simulate and test the behavior…Kong3 min readKong3 min read
Jul 3, 2021Customize the Default Log Format in Kong API GatewayThis is a continuation of my article series on Kong API gateway and this one will go though the steps to change the default log format of the Kong API gateway with the desired style. Role of Nginx Kong is built on NGINX, and uses Lua to implement its API functionality, whereas the…Logging4 min readLogging4 min read
May 7, 2021Git HandbookThis is collection of most frequently used git commits with explanations to some of the git concepts. Basic git commands #When working with your own repo git clone {repo url} //get remote repo git add …Github4 min readGithub4 min read
Published inThe Startup·Aug 15, 2020Utmost Protection with OpenId Authentication 🔒API security is so important for any system as it exposes sensitive data like medical, financial, personal etc for public consumption. So resource security and authentication takes an uttermost significance in configuring any enterprise API gateway. Here I am guiding you through the steps to configure the Kong API gateway…Kong5 min readKong5 min read
Aug 8, 2020How I configured Kong Plugins…This is a extension of my previous blog where I introduced the Kong API gateway and it’s main components. So if you are new to this wonderful product or the API gateway concepts, you can read it to brush up your knowledge before we go ahead and configure the plugins…Kong5 min readKong5 min read
Published inThe Startup·Apr 26, 2020Member-onlyInner API Gateway for Cloud With KongHope you are not confused by the thumbnail of this article. So this is not about the Kong from the film King Kong, but a different Kong for your cloud-native platform. I will walk you through the steps to deploy and configure an inner API gateway for your environment with…Kong4 min readKong4 min read
Mar 28, 2020Grafana Dashboards for Prometheus MetricsThis is a short, last article to complete the installation of a comprehensive Monitoring and Alerting system for cloud-native applications with Prometheus. In the previous articles we looked into the concepts and the steps to setup and integrate Prometheus server, alert-manager, Prom2teams and a dead man’s switch. So now we…Grafana4 min readGrafana4 min read
Mar 8, 2020Alerting for Cloud-native Applications with PrometheusIn the previous article we discussed the basics of Prometheus and the steps to integrate your application with Prometheus server. In this article we will explore another stream of an extensive monitoring system, which is triggering alerts for your production environment. First let’s see all the different components and the…Alertmanager5 min readAlertmanager5 min read
Mar 1, 2020Setting Up A Comprehensive Monitoring System With PrometheusMonitoring and alerting is a key component of any system. It is very important to identify and rectify any errors or issues in a live system to ensure a reliable and continuous user experience. So this is the first of several articles to implement a complete monitoring and alerting setup…Prometheus5 min readPrometheus5 min read
