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Lens, the Kubernetes IDE, is an open source Kubernetes dashboard that enables users to easily see what objects are running in their cluster and interact with them. In that way, it has been helping to take some of the pain out of Kubernetes operations and development, but now it includes features specifically aimed at those of us with large environments.

Viktor Gamov, a principal developer advocate at Kong, explains how to quickly enable external access to your applications that run in Kubernetes using the Kong Ingress Controller.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to get to the next level of API documentation using Kong Developer Portal with GraphQL. In my example, I’ll be using Kong Konnect Enterprise Version 2.4, but the version number does not really matter. I also configured my workspace with one service that points to a Star Wars API endpoint with a GraphQL interface (swapi-graphql.netlify.com). We’ll also be using an open source tool called GraphiQL for interactive documentation of a GraphQL endpoint. With GraphiQL, we’ll see requests, responses and automated generation of documentation based on the endpoint.

Kong Builders is a new livestream series that takes a hands-on, practitioner-focused approach to exploring Kong's tools - namely Kuma and Kong Mesh. We'll build from the ground up - teaching how service mesh works from its foundations, and debugging/troubleshooting as we run into problems.

In our third Kong and Okta tutorial, we’ll go through the introspection flow implementation. The introspection flow is part of the token validation process. Kong Gateway evaluates the injected token at the request processing time to see if it's still valid to the upstream services. The evaluation hits a specific Okta endpoint, passing the received token. Based on the response provided by Okta, Kong Gateway accepts or rejects the request.