Validating Kong Route Paths with a Custom Ruleset
Kong Gateway’s declarative configuration approach is powerful, but it opens the door to subtle routing mistakes that can break your API in production. One of the most common issues I’ve recently encountered is malformed route paths: missing path arrays, empty strings, or accidentally defining paths as strings instead of arrays. These errors often slip through manual reviews and only surface when traffic starts failing. To catch these configuration errors early in our CI pipeline, I built a custom ruleset that enforces proper route path structure before deployment....