The KrakenD team is pleased to announce KrakenD Enterprise 2.0, already available for install or upgrade today. KrakenD 2.0 is the awaited new major version of KrakenD bringing a lot of improvements to the API Gateway, including all the features and improvements of open source releases between v1.4 and v2.0.4. KrakenD Enterprise adds API Analytics, IP Filtering, GraphQL, OpenAPI importers and exporters, integration tests, specific request/modifier plugins, Async Agents, backend response logging (dumper) and improves the existing WebSockets, API Keys, configuration syntax, New Relic reporting, logging, and router to put a few examples.

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BARCELONA, Spain — April 7, 2022 KrakenD today announced the availability of KrakenD API Gateway in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. KrakenD customers can now take advantage of the scalability, high availability, and security of Azure, with streamlined deployment and management. The KrakenD API Gateway serves as a unified interface for managing incoming API requests and connecting to the correct destination, while supporting functionalities across security, authorization, traffic management, observability, and load balancing, among other services.

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The KrakenD team is pleased to announce the major release KrakenD 2.0. You can get it packaged from the download page. KrakenD 2.0 is the new major version of KrakenD bringing a lot of improvements to the API Gateway. GraphQL, specific request/modifier plugins, async agents, easier configuration, better logging, and a more flexible router to put a few examples. Migration guide If you are an existing KrakenD user read “Migrating from KrakenD 1.

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The year 2021 ended with terrible news for Java developers who saw how the Log4J vulnerabilities exposed their systems. KrakenD is a Go application and not a Java application. Therefore, it is not affected by this vulnerability in any way. As a result, we didn’t want to add more noise to the chain of emails you could have probably received. Nevertheless, during the past month, we had questions from customers who have Java systems behind KrakenD that could be vulnerable and other users that weren’t sure if KrakenD was impacted or not.

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Integration and load testing are in the list of best practices in our sector, but synthesizing good inputs for such tests and analyzing the results are usually two hard things to achieve. This post will show you how we suggest our customers set up a shadow testing system with minimal impact on the production environment and proper harness. Quick overview As pointed out at https://cloud.google.com/architecture/application-deployment-and-testing-strategies Testing new backend features by using the production load.

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Barcelona – 15th June 2020 – KrakenD today announced the availability of its API Gateway on Auth0 Marketplace, a catalog of trusted technology integrations to extend the functionality of Auth0’s identity management platform. KrakenD offers an ultra-performant API Gateway that allows companies to effortlessly adopt a microservices architecture through a powerful engine that can transform, aggregate, and remove data from their own or third-party services. The KrakenD API Gateway serves as a unified interface for managing incoming API requests and connecting to the correct destination, while supporting functionalities across security, authorization, traffic management, observability, and load balancing, among others.

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The KrakenD team is pleased to announce the release of KrakenD 1.4.0. You can get it packaged from the download page. KrakenD 1.4 is the last version of the 1.x family and primarily replaces the KrakenD Framework with the Lura Project and includes minor bug fixing and an extended flexible configuration. The next release with the new functionality will be 2.0. Changes in KrakenD All dependencies for the framework moved to Lura json-collection added as a valid output encoding for collections Changes in Flexible Configuration For those using the flexible configuration, there are over 70 Sprig functions that have been added to the templating system:

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We are glad to announce that KrakenD Enterprise 1.3.0 is out. The new release comes with the following new features. New CLI commands The KrakenD binary comes with new generator commands, thought to be integrated into automated CI/CD pipelines. generate postman: Creates a Postman collection that imports all KrakenD endpoints into Postman. It’s no longer necessary to use the KrakenD Studio to generate this content. generate openapi: Automatic generation of API documentation through a static Swagger file.

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Today, together with the Linux Foundation, we are announcing that the KrakenD framework, our core engine, has been donated to the Linux Foundation and is now the “Lura Project.” The Lura Project’s mission is to offer an extendable, simple, and stateless high-performance API Gateway framework designed for cloud-native and on-prem setups. Rather than solving a specific use case, Lura provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom API gateway systems like a Lego set.

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Today, we are announcing that Albert Garcia recently joined KrakenD as Director of Business Development and member of the Board. In his role, he will identify and develop new business opportunities to help expand even more the presence of KrakenD. Garcia will spearhead new markets and emerging trends, sales, and client relationship management, to name a few. Having worked previously with him for more than 15 years, we know that Garcia is the right person at the right time for KrakenD.

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