How do you set up a Kong?
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How do you set up a Kong?
Install Kong Gateway on Amazon Linux 2
- Connect to your EC2 instance over SSH to install Kong Gateway.
- Use SCP to copy your Kong installation to the EC2 system.
- Yum install Kong Gateway on the EC2 instance.
- Install PostgreSQL.
- Initialize the database, enable the service and start PostgreSQL.
- Create a Kong user.
What is Kong used for?
Kong is used by developers and software product owners to create portals to APIs, manage them and adjust for scaling. Popular features deployed through Kong include: Authentication on services for protection. Traffic control to restrict inbound and outbound API traffic.
How do you run a Kong?
- Prerequisites.
- Install Kong Gateway with a database. Prepare the database. Start Kong Gateway. Get started with Kong Gateway. Clean up containers.
- Install Kong Gateway in DB-less mode. Create a Docker network. Prepare your configuration file. Start Kong Gateway in DB-less mode. Get started with Kong Gateway.
- Troubleshooting.
What Are Kong routes?
Routes determine how (and if) requests are sent to their Services after they reach Kong Gateway. A single Service can have many Routes. After configuring the Service and the Route, you’ll be able to start making requests through Kong Gateway.
How do you test a Kong?
Just enter the URL, select HTTP call type (Get/Post/any other), add headers if any and click on send to get the response. If you have installed the kong on the same machine/system from which you are making call, then in url localhost will be used, otherwise DNS or IP of the machine on which kong is installed with port.
How do I find my Kong route?
On the Kong server conf file, the Kong Admin API will listen on port 8001. If issuing this command on the Kong server, this command will display every route. This will display every route with foo-service.
What treats do you put in a Kong?
How to Use a KONG. You can stuff KONGs with almost any kind of food your dog likes. Feed him his meals in a KONG by mixing his regular kibble with a little canned dog food, cottage cheese, yogurt, peanut butter, canned pumpkin or mashed banana.
Does Kong need a database?
Kong maintains a cache of this data so that there is no need for a database roundtrip while proxying requests, which would critically impact performance.
What is Kong configuration?
The Kong configuration file is a YAML file that can be specified when using Kong through the CLI. This file allows you to configure and customize Kong to your needs. From the ports it uses, the database it conncts to, and even the internal NGINX server itself.
Is Kong a load balancer?
Kong provides different ways of load balancing requests to multiple services – a DNS-based method, round-robin method and a hash-based balancing method. A DNS-based method will configure a domain in DNS in such a manner that the user requests to the domain are distributed among a group of services.
What is Kong upstream?
An Upstream Object refers to your upstream API/service sitting behind Kong Gateway, to which client requests are forwarded. In Kong Gateway, an Upstream Object represents a virtual hostname and can be used to health check, circuit break, and load balance incoming requests over multiple services (targets).
What is a consumer in Kong?
A consumer in kong is the application that is is using the API. So, unless you have multiple vendors using your app/web service, I suggest you create a single consumer. You can create multiple key and secret pair(JWT credentials) for that consumer. Create a JWT for a user by using the users Key and secret.
Can I give my dog a Kong every day?
When using a stuffed Kong, it’s really important to consider your dog’s daily calorie intake. If you are going to be giving your dog a stuffed Kong as part of their daily routine. Then it is a simple case of deducting the calories contained in the stuffed Kong from the dogs daily food intake.
What is the healthiest thing to stuff in a Kong?
You can stuff a KONG with anything that is safe for your dog to eat. Peanut butter, yogurt, canned pumpkin and fruit are a few favorites. Using a variety of different foods keeps the challenge interesting.
What is Kong in Devops?
Kong is Orchestration Microservice API Gateway. Kong provides a flexible abstraction layer that securely manages communication between clients and microservices via API. Also known as an API Gateway, API middleware or in some cases Service Mesh.
Is Kong a proxy server?
The Forward Proxy plugin allows Kong to connect to intermediary transparent HTTP proxies, instead of directly to the upstream_url, when forwarding requests upstream.
