Kong Manager is the graphical user interface (GUI) for Kong Gateway. It uses the Kong Admin API under the hood to administer and control Kong Gateway. It comes in two options, depending on the edition of Kong Gateway that you’re running: open-source or enterprise.

If you’re running Kong Gateway with a database (either in traditional or hybrid mode), you can enable Kong Gateway’s graphical user interface (GUI), Kong Manager. Docker Linux (kong.conf)

Kong Manager is the graphical user interface (GUI) for Kong Gateway. It uses the Kong Admin API under the hood to administer and control Kong Gateway. Kong’s Admin API must be accessible over HTTP from your local machine to use Kong Manager

Kong Gateway comes packaged with authentication plugins that can be used to secure Kong Manager. To enable to an authentication plugin for only Kong Manager, you need to set the following properties in kong.conf :

The Kong Gateway software is governed by the Kong Software License Agreement. Kong Gateway (OSS) is licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. Prerequisites. Note: If you want to run Kong Gateway without managing a control plane or a database, you can get started with Konnect in under 5 minutes using our Docker quick start script.

Kong Gateway is a lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway. An API gateway is a reverse proxy that lets you manage, configure, and route requests to your APIs. Kong Gateway runs in front of any RESTful API and can be extended through modules and plugins.

To secure the Admin API or Kong Manager, a Super Admin account is required. The Super Admin has the ability to invite other Admins and restrict their access based on Permissions of Roles within Workspaces.

Enable basic authentication on a Kong Manager instance. Prerequisites You have super admin permissions or a user that has /admins and /rbac read and write access.

In this guide you’ll learn how to use the KongUpstream and KongTarget custom resources to manage Kong Konnect upstreams and their targets natively from your Kubernetes cluster. Prerequisites: Install Kong Gateway Operator and create a valid KonnectAPIAuthConfiguration and KonnectGatewayControlPlane in your cluster. Prerequisites

Kong Gateway comes with an internal RESTful Admin API for administration purposes. Requests to the Admin API can be sent to any node in the cluster, and Kong will keep the configuration consistent across all nodes.