Kong Dashboard

Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as a API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong runs in front of any RESTful API and provide functionalities and services such as requests routing, authentication, rate limiting, etc.

Kong dashboard is a UI tool that will let you manage your Kong Gateway setup.

Compatibility matrix

Kong version	Kong-Dashboard version
0.6.x, 0.7.x, 0.8.x, 0.9.x	1.x.x
0.10.x	2.x.x

Presentation

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Managing APIs

Managing Consumers

Managin Plugins

Prerequisites

You will need:

a running Kong gateway. https://getkong.org/install/
nodejs and npm.

Installation

With Npm

# Install Kong Dashboard
npm install -g kong-dashboard@v2

# Start Kong Dashboard
kong-dashboard start

# To start Kong Dashboard on a custom port
kong-dashboard start -p [port]

# To start Kong Dashboard with basic auth
kong-dashboard start -a user=password

# You can set basic auth user with environment variables
# Do not set -a parameter or this will be overwritten
export KONG_DASHBOARD_NAME=admin && export KONG_DASHBOARD_PASS=password && kong-dashboard start

From sources

# Pull repository
git clone https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard.git
cd kong-dashboard
git checkout 2.0

# Build Kong Dashboard
npm install
npm run build

# Start Kong Dashboard
npm start

# To start Kong Dashboard on a custom port or with basic auth
npm start -- [-p port] [-a user=password]

With Docker

# Start Kong Dashboard
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard:v2

# Start Kong Dashboard on a custom port
docker run -d -p [port]:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard:v2

# Start Kong Dashboard with basic auth
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard:v2 -a user=password

With Vagrant

# Pull repository
git clone https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard.git
cd kong-dashboard
git checkout 2.0

# Start VM
vagrant up

Configuration

When browsing Kong-Dashboard, you will be asked to provide the URL of your Kong node.

If you're hosting Kong on your local machine, the "Kong node URL" is not "http://localhost:8001". It will be your machine/LAN IP, for example: "http://192.168.x.x:8001"

Use

You can now browse your kong dashboard at http://localhost:8080

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