---
title: API Gateway Authorization with Kong
labels:
  layer: network
  category: gateway
software:
- kong
code:
- https://github.com/open-policy-agent/contrib/tree/main/kong_api_authz
inventors:
- wada-ama
---

Kong is a microservice API Gateway. OPA provides fine-grained, context-aware
control over the requests that Kong receives.
