Custom plugins
Developing custom plugins
Kong provides a development environment for developing plugins, including Plugin Development Kits (or PDKs), database abstractions, migrations, and more.
Plugins consist of modules interacting with the request/response objects or streams via a PDK to implement arbitrary logic. With custom plugins, you can configure these modules to provide custom functionality to Kong Gateway.
Plugin Development Kits (PDKs)
PDKs are sets of functions that a plugin can use to facilitate interactions between plugins and the core (or other components) of Kong. Kong provides PDKs in the following languages:
Lua
Kong Gateway provides a broad plugin development environment including an SDK, database abstractions, migrations
Go
Kong Gateway supports the Go language with the Go PDK, a library that provides Go bindings for Kong Gateway
Python
Kong Gateway support for Python plugin development is provided by the kong-python-pdk library
JavaScript
Kong Gateway support for the JavaScript language is provided by the JavaScript PDK
Third-party plugins
Through partnerships with third parties, Kong lists some third-party custom plugins on the Kong Plugin Hub. These plugins are maintained by Kong partners. If you would like to have your plugin featured on the Kong Plugin Hub, we encourage you to become a Kong Partner.