Istio vs Kong vs Spring Cloud

Overview

Kong

Stacks650

Followers1.5K

Votes139

GitHub Stars42.1K

Forks5.0K

Spring Cloud

Stacks909

Followers753

Votes0

Istio

Stacks960

Followers1.5K

Votes54

GitHub Stars37.6K

Forks8.1K

Detailed Comparison

Kong	Spring Cloud	Istio
Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.	It provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems.	Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk; OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs; Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics; IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests; Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens; Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP or authentication; Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP params and headers on-the-fly; CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked; Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins;	Distributed/versioned configuration; Service registration and discovery; Routing; Service-to-service calls; Load balancing; Circuit Breakers; Global locks; Leadership election and cluster state; Distributed messaging	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 42.1K	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 37.6K
GitHub Forks 5.0K	GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 8.1K
Stacks 650	Stacks 909	Stacks 960
Followers 1.5K	Followers 753	Followers 1.5K
Votes 139	Votes 0	Votes 54
Pros & Cons
Pros 37 Easy to maintain 32 Easy to install 26 Flexible 21 Great performance 7 Api blueprint	No community feedback yet	Pros 14 Zero code for logging and monitoring 9 Service Mesh 8 Great flexibility 5 Powerful authorization mechanisms 5 Ingress controller Cons 17 Performance
Integrations
Cassandra Docker Prometheus Kubernetes PostgreSQL NGINX Vagrant	Hystrix Eureka Zuul	Kubernetes Docker

What are some alternatives to Kong, Spring Cloud, Istio?

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.