Summary:

What is Kong?

• Is an open source API Gateway (Middleware)

What is Konga?

• Opensource admin UI for Kong

What is a service?

• Like a set of configurations: where to route to, which middleware(plugin) to execute.

What is a route?

• Like an input route and service is an output

What a plugin?

• Middle where to execute between each request

What is a consumer?

• Who use the API, what they do

0. Run docker compose

docker compose up -d

1. Create a service

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8001/services/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "admin-api",
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": 8001
}'

2. Create a route

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8001/services/{service_id|service_name}/routes' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "paths": ["/admin-api"]
}'

3. Add a auth plugin

curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/services/{service_id|service_name}/plugins \
    --data "name=key-auth" 

4. Add Konga as a consumer

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8001/consumers/' \
--form 'username=konga' \
--form 'custom_id=cebd360d-3de6-4f8f-81b2-31575fe9846a'

5. Create a token

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8001/consumers/e7b420e2-f200-40d0-9d1a-a0df359da56e/key-auth'