Kong Gateway is one of the most famous API Gateways in the Cloud Native world. It's used to manage the lifecycle of APIs and micro-services. API Gateways can do- Rate limiting, securing Your API with Key and tokens, logging and many more.
Here at LinuxAPT, as part of our Server Management Services, we regularly help our Customers to perform related Cloud system queries.
In this context, we shall look into how to install Kong API Gateway on Ubuntu 20.04.
To begin, we will download Kong API Gateway package by running the following command:
$ curl -Lo kong.2.5.0.amd64.deb "https://download.konghq.com/gateway-2.x-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -cs)/pool/all/k/kong/kong_2.5.0_amd64.deb"Then, install the deb file by dpkg command:
$ sudo dpkg -i kong.2.5.0.amd64.debHere, we will not use a database (Kong will run in the DB-less mode). Run the following command to generate the config file for Kong:
$ kong config initA config file name kong.yml will be created after running the above command. Let’s edit the kong.yml file as follow:
database = off
declarative_config: /home/ubuntu/kong.yml
How to Run Kong API ?
To start Kong, you can simply run the following command:
$ kong start -c kong.ymlTo verify that Kong is running:
$ curl -i http://localhost:8001This article covers how to install the KONG API Gateway on Ubuntu 20.04. These Gateways provides services like Authentication, rate-limiting, analysis, logging etc., to your API endpoints.
To Start kong API, run the following commands:
$ kong migrations up #runs the database migrations
$ sudo kong start
$ curl -i http://localhost:8001To Stop and see status of kong API, run the following commands:
$ sudo kong stop #stop kong
$ sudo kong health #kong status
