Many developers and DevOps engineers have been deploying Kong Gateway in front of their microservices-based applications. While the extensive library of built-in plugins can add a lot of flexibility and power to your deployments, you might encounter the occasional use case where you need a custom plugin that’s just not found in the library.
Fortunately, you can use Go to create and run plugins for Kong Gateway. This post will cover how to get set up for writing Kong plugins. We’ll look at the parts of the request/response lifecycle that you can tap into, and we’ll walk through an example of how to put it all together.