Plugins are one of the most important features of Kong. Many Kong API gateway features are provided by plugins. Authentication, rate-limiting, transformation, logging and more are all implemented independently as plugins. Plugins can be installed and configured via the Admin API running alongside Kong.
Almost all plugins can be customized not only to target a specific proxied service, but also to target specific Consumers.
From a technical perspective, a plugin is Lua code that’s being executed during the life-cycle of a proxied request and response. Through plugins, Kong can be extended to fit any custom need or integration challenge. For example, if you need to integrate the API’s user authentication with a third-party enterprise security system, that would be implemented in a dedicated plugin that is run on every request targeting that given API.
There are several plugins at this page
https://docs.konghq.com/hub/
references
https://konghq.com/faqs#:~:text=The%20Kong%20Server%2C%20built%20on,before%20proxying%20the%20request%20upstream.&text=for%20proxying.,Kong%20listens%20for%20HTTP%20traffic.
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