Thousands of organizations have adopted the Kong API Gateway, the most popular open-source API gateway. Since Kong is used by platform and SRE teams, it comes with tight integration with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling like Terraform, Pulumi, and Kubernetes. Such integrations and tooling are prerequisites for starting and operating Kong Gateway and the larger API ecosystem surrounding it. “API Operations” (API-Ops for short) team builds developer-first experiences and tools that are run more than a few million times every day of the year.