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 GUI that will let you manage your Kong Gateway setup.
Compatibility matrix, Kong-Dashboard versions, Kong versions, Node versions, --------------, ------------------------------, --------------, 1.x.x, >= 0.6, < 0.10, 2.x.x, 0.10, 3.0.x, >= 0.9, <0.12, >= 6.0.0, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, >= 0.9, <0.13, >= 6.0.0, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, >= 0.9, <0.14, >= 6.0.0, 3.5.x, >= 0.9, <0.15, >= 6.0.0, 3.6.x, >= 0.9, <2.0.0, >= 6.0.0, Notes:
- Kong Dashboard 3.3.0 is only partially compatible with Kong 0.13. It does not support the new Service and Route
objects introduced in Kong 0.13.
Prerequisites
You will need:
- a running Kong gateway. https://getkong.org/install/
- nodejs and npm, or docker
Installation
Using npm
# Install Kong Dashboard
npm install -g kong-dashboard
# Start Kong Dashboard
kong-dashboard start --kong-url http://kong:8001
# Start Kong Dashboard on a custom port
kong-dashboard start \
--kong-url http://kong:8001 \
--port [port]
# Start Kong Dashboard with basic auth
kong-dashboard start \
--kong-url http://kong:8001 \
--basic-auth user1=password1 user2=password2
# See full list of start options
kong-dashboard start --help
Using Docker
# Start Kong Dashboard
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard start --kong-url http://kong:8001
# Start Kong Dashboard on a custom port
docker run --rm -p [port]:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard start --kong-url http://kong:8001
# Start Kong Dashboard with basic auth
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard start \
--kong-url http://kong:8001
--basic-auth user1=password1 user2=password2
# See full list of start options
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard start --help
Use
You can now browse Kong Dashboard at http://localhost:8080
Contributing
If you consider contributing to Kong Dashboard by reporting a bug, or submitting a patch, please checkout the
contribution document for guidance.