Kong Gateway: The Central Control Plane for LLM Operations

Direct connections between applications and OpenAI create operational complexity—every service manages API keys, rate limits, and provider changes independently. Kong Gateway centralizes LLM access control at the API gateway layer, where authentication, rate limiting, and model swapping happen in one place without touching application code. With infrastructure-as-code configuration via decK and deployment on Kubernetes, teams can manage LLM operations systematically and at scale.