To demonstrate an example of a security plugin at work, we'll deploy Kong's Rate Limiting plugin to show how Kong can prevent excessive inbound requests to your applications. We'll create a local Kubernetes cluster with kind and then deploy the Kong Ingress Controller by following these instructions.

After creating a cluster and deploying the Kong Ingress Controller, our first step is to set up the Rate Limiting plugin. There are different scopes for which you can set up the plugin. We’ll use the default project on our Kubernetes cluster for our use case and scope the plugin to that default namespace.