Kong is a cloud-native, platform-agnostic API gateway built on OpenResty/Nginx. It provides traffic management, security, observability, and AI/LLM proxying capabilities through a plugin architecture. The system supports traditional, DB-less, and hybrid deployment modes, with an Admin API for configuration and Kong Manager for GUI-based management. Key features include load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, request/response transformation, and extensive observability integrations.

Insomnia is a comprehensive API client built on Electron that supports HTTP, WebSocket, Socket.IO, gRPC, and MCP protocols. It features a modular architecture with separate packages for the main application, data layer, CLI tool, analytics, and scripting environment. The application provides API design, debugging, testing, and collaboration capabilities through workspace/project organization, environment management, import/export functionality, cloud sync, Git integration, and a plugin system. Built with React and TypeScript, it uses NeDB for local data storage and implements sophisticated security measures for secret management and plugin sandboxing.

decK is a CLI tool for declarative configuration management of Kong API Gateway and Konnect SaaS. It enables users to manage Kong entities (services, routes, plugins, consumers, certificates, etc.) via YAML/JSON state files, supporting sync, diff, dump, apply, reset, and validate operations. The architecture is a single binary with multiple subcommands organized under `gateway`, `file`, `ai`, and `konnect` namespaces, built on top of Kong's go-database-reconciler library for state reconciliation. Key entry points include `main.go` (signal handling), `cmd/root.go` (Cobra CLI), and command handlers in `cmd/gateway_*.go`, `cmd/file_*.go`, and `cmd/ai_*.go`. Data flows involve reading declarative state files, fetching current state from Kong Admin API or Konnect, computing diffs, and applying CRUD operations. External dependencies include Kong Gateway (>=1.x), Kong Enterprise, Konnect, and various Go libraries for Kubernetes, Terraform, and AI Gateway integrations. The repository also includes converters for generating Kubernetes Ingress Controller manifests (`kong2kic`), Terraform resources (`kong2tf`), and version migration rulesets (`convert/`).

This repository is the official Helm chart collection for deploying Kong API Gateway and related operators (Kong Ingress Controller, Kong Gateway Operator, Kong Operator, Kong AI Gateway) on Kubernetes. It provides production-grade deployment templates with support for DB-less, PostgreSQL, hybrid mode, enterprise features, cert-manager integration, Prometheus monitoring, and admission webhooks. The architecture is a multi-chart Helm repository with subcharts for CRDs (kic-crds, gwapi-crds, ko-crds) and extensive CI snapshot testing via helm-chartsnap. Key entry points include the main `charts/kong/` chart for the gateway and ingress controller, `charts/kong-operator/` for the Kong Operator managing Konnect and AI gateway resources, and `charts/gateway-operator/` for the Gateway API operator. External dependencies include Kong container images, cert-manager, Bitnami PostgreSQL (optional), and Konnect SaaS for enterprise deployments. The repository is actively maintained with regular releases, changelogs, and upgrade guides, though CRDs are auto-generated and may drift from upstream operator versions.