Kong Services API
Service entities are abstractions of your microservice interfaces or formal APIs. For example, a service could be a data transformation microservice or a billing API. The main attribute of a service is the destination URL for proxying traffic. This URL can be set as a single string or by specifying its protocol, host, port and path individually. Services are associated to routes, and a single service can have many routes associated with it. Routes are entrypoints in Kong Gateway which define rules to match client requests. Once a route is matched, Kong Gateway proxies the request to its associated service. See the [Route documentation](https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/entities/route/) for a detailed explanation of how Kong proxies traffic. Services can be both [tagged and filtered by tags](https://developer.konghq.com/admin-api/).