Is Kong written in Lua?

How to write a Kong plugin?

I've been looking into writing a Kong plugin.

The documentation for their API is great and it would be a useful exercise for me.

How does one go about writing a Kong plugin? How do they actually use it in the core? The best reference I've found is the old kong plugin howto: But I'm not sure if that's still relevant to Kong 2.0.

Are there any guides on how to go about writing a Kong plugin? Thanks. You may want to start by reviewing the Kong documentation on. There are many plugins listed under the "Community" section at the top of that page.

Is Kong written in Lua?

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Kong uses Lua as its scripting language. (Lua and Kong can also be described as the complete other, but that's a story for another day). That got me thinking. If Kong can't be compiled to native executable code, how does it actually run? Are there "native" Lua interpreters (which is what I assume is in use in Kong), or is it all just interpreted-to-bytecode? If it's interpreter-to-bytecode, could Kong itself have any sort of direct interaction with the interpreter/bytecode engine? Like, if I were to run a simple Lua script in Kong, could the script be written using some combination of code stored in Kong's codebase and Lua itself, similar to how Apache has httpd modules which provide both compiled languages (C and Perl) and interpreted languages (LUA and PHP)? (Lua and Kong can also be described as the complete other, but that's a story for another day). Are there "native" Lua interpreters (which is what I assume is in use in Kong), or is it all just interpreted-to-bytecode? Like, if I were to run a simple Lua script in Kong, could the script be written using some combination of code stored in Kong's codebase and Lua itself, similar to how Apache has httpd modules which provide both compiled languages (C and Perl) and interpreted languages (LUA and PHP)? There's no specific interpreter in use in Kong at this time, rather Kong uses the Lua interpreter as part of libkong. You can add your own Lua scripts to be executed by Kong, but they can't modify anything directly - they need to make requests to a web server that you control.