Kong

Key authentication is a method of authentication that uses a key to authenticate access to services available in the Kong API Gateway. Key authentication is one of the plugins available in the Kong API Gateway that can be used to manage access to services by requiring clients to include a key in their requests.

Kong Gateway provides features called "service" and "route" that can be used to manage access to specific services.

Kong Gateway is an API gateway platform used to manage, control, and secure access to APIs. This API gateway provides features such as load balancing, caching, and SSL/TLS encryption to help manage web, mobile, and IoT traffic, and offers additional plugins for API processing.