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title: "Kong Gateway Introduction"
description: "Kong Gateway is one of the most widely used open-source API Gateways."
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# Kong Gateway Introduction

Kong Gateway is a cloud-native API Gateway and one of the most widely used
open-source API Gateways in the world.

## Key Features

- **Cloud Native**: Built for cloud environments with container and orchestration support
- **Plugin Architecture**: Extensible through a rich plugin ecosystem
- **High Performance**: Built on Nginx/OpenResty for low-latency proxying
- **Dynamic Configuration**: Admin API for runtime configuration without restarts

## Use Cases

- API management and versioning
- Authentication and authorization
- Rate limiting and throttling
- Request/response transformation
- Logging and monitoring

Source: https://luozhouyang.com/kong/introduction/index.mdx