Backing Up an API Gateway's Config — Per Connection, Restore-Safe (opens in new tab)

I spent today building a backup-and-restore feature for a Laravel app that manages multiple API gateway connections — each connection being a separate gateway environment (think prod, staging, a client's cluster). Kong stores all its routing, plugins, consumers and credentials in its own datastore, and "just trust the gateway's own backup" stops being good enough the moment you're orchestrating several of them from one control plane. You want your snapshot, on your schedule, scoped to one con...