Kong Gateway is a Lua application designed to load and execute Lua or Go modules, which we commonly refer to as plugins. Kong provides a set of standard Lua plugins that get bundled with Kong Gateway. The set of plugins you have access to depends on your installation: open-source, enterprise, or either of these Kong Gateway options running on Kubernetes.
Custom plugins can also be developed by the Kong Community and are supported and maintained by the plugin creators. If they are published on the Kong Plugin Hub, they are called Community or Third-Party plugins.
Why use plugins?
Plugins provide advanced functionality and extend the use of the Kong Gateway, which allows you to add new features to your implementation. Plugins can be configured to run in a variety of contexts, ranging from a specific route to all upstreams, and can execute actions inside Kong before or after a request has been proxied to the upstream API, as well as on any incoming responses.
references:
https://docs.konghq.com/hub/plugins/overview/
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