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Kong Gateway Operator ​

Precondition ​

Cluster has to be deployed with the NGINX Ingress Controller and the HTTPBin example. DNS preparation

You can test Kong Ingress by adding the following entry to your /etc/hosts file:

bash
# Append to /etc/hosts
[...]

127.0.0.1		httpbin.example.com

Installation ​

You can start the installation of the Kong Gateway Operator with the included shell script:

bash
cd examples/kong-gateway-operator
bash setup.sh

The following components are installed with the setup.sh:

  • Installs HashiCorp Vault for certificate management (from examples/vault)
    • Installs cert-manager HELM Chart
    • Creates a wildcard certificate for domain example.com - used for Kong Gateway
  • Installs Gateway API CRDs
  • Enables Kubernetes Gateway API support for cert-manager
  • Installs Kong Gateway Operator instance using Kong Operator HELM Chart (to namespace kong-system) - https://github.com/Kong/charts/tree/main/charts/gateway-operator
  • Configures Kong Gateway instance
    • Creates Namespace Kong
    • Creates GatewayClass, GatewayConfiguration and Gateway resources
    • After that Kong Gateway is available in the namespace kong and can be called with the URL: https://localhost:8081
  • Creates HTTPRoute resource for the HTTPBin example

NOTE

When you have added the Root CA to your system Truststore, or your browser the connection should be secured correctly. You can find the Root CA certificate under: examples/vault/root-certs/rootCACert.pem.