Kong Assessment

Kong on Docker Compose

Read the detailed README at docker-compose/README.md

cd docker-compose
docker-compose up -d
# Bring up all kong components with configuration
deck sync --headers "Kong-Admin-Token:password"

GitOps with decK

# Dump kong config
deck dump --headers "Kong-Admin-Token:password"

• GitHub workflow brings up the kong environment with docker-compose.
• Run decK sync against the docker compose environment brought up earlier (Ideally, it would point to the actual kong instance's Admin API)

Kong on Kubernetes

Read the detailed README at kubernetes/README.md

# Create cluster
eksctl create cluster -f eks-config.yaml # Or create/use any k8s cluster

# Install kong
helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com
helm repo update
helm install kong kong/kong -n kong --create-namespace

# Install Kong components, k8s services, ingress
# Replace the host with the loadbalancer IP of kong-proxy
kubectl apply -f kubernetes/

GitOps with Flux

GitOps with Flux

Install Flux CLI

curl -s https://fluxcd.io/install.sh | sudo bash

Setup git repository for flux (fleet-infra)

• Create an empty private github repository(flux-infra)
• Create a PAT token with access to contents, deploy keys for the above created repository
• Store the PAT token as an environment variable - GITHUB_TOKEN
• Store the GitHub username as GITHUB_USER

Install flux

flux bootstrap github \
  --owner=$GITHUB_USER \
  --repository=flux-infra \
  --branch=main \
  --personal

Setup git repository for application and kong manifests

• Create an SSH key pair using ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
• Create a deploy key in the kong-assessment repository with the above created public key with read only access

Configure flux to sync manifests

• Create a secret for the git repository -

flux create secret git kong-assessment-auth \
    --url=ssh://[email protected]/$GITHUB_USER/kong-assessment \
    --private-key-file=./id_ed25519 # This private key is the private key created in the previous section

• Create a file kong-assessment-flux.yaml with the following contents and check it into the flux-infra repository -

---
apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2
kind: GitRepository
metadata:
  name: kong-assessment
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 1m0s
  ref:
    branch: main
  secretRef:
    name: kong-assessment-auth
  url: ssh://[email protected]/avinashupadhya99/kong-assessment
---
apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
  name: kong-assessment
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 10m0s
  path: ./
  prune: true
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: kong-assessment