---
title: API Gateway Authorization with Kong
labels:
  layer: network
  category: gateway
software:
- kong
code:
- https://github.com/TravelNest/kong-authorization-opa
- https://github.com/open-policy-agent/contrib/tree/master/kong_api_authz
inventors:
- travelnest
- wada-ama
---
Kong is a microservice API Gateway.  OPA provides fine-grained, context-aware control over the requests that Kong receives.
