decK: Declarative configuration for Kong

decK provides declarative configuration and drift detection for Kong.

Table of Content

• Features
• Compatibility
• Installation
• Documentation
• Stale issue and pull request policy
• License

Features

• Export
  Existing Kong configuration to a YAML configuration file This can be used to backup Kong's configuration.
• Import
  Kong's database can be populated using the exported or a hand written config file.
• Diff and sync capabilities
  decK can diff the configuration in the config file and the configuration in Kong's DB and then sync it as well. This can be used to detect config drifts or manual interventions.
• Reverse sync
  decK supports a sync the other way as well, meaning if an entity is created in Kong and doesn't add it to the config file, decK will detect the change.
• Validation
  decK can validate a YAML file that you backup or modify to catch errors early on.
• Reset
  This can be used to drops all entities in Kong's DB.
• Parallel operations
  All Admin API calls to Kong are executed in parallel using multiple threads to speed up the sync process.
• Authentication with Kong Custom HTTP headers can be injected in requests to Kong's Admin API for authentication/authorization purposes.
• Manage Kong's config with multiple config file
  Split your Kong's configuration into multiple logical files based on a shared set of tags amongst entities.
• Designed to automate configuration management
  decK is designed to be part of your CI pipeline and can be used to not only push configuration to Kong but also detect drifts in configuration.

Compatibility

decK is compatible with Kong Gateway >= 1.x and Kong Enterprise >= 0.35.

Installation

macOS

If you are on macOS, install decK using brew:

$ brew tap kong/deck
$ brew install deck

Linux

If you are Linux, you can either use the Debian or RPM archive from the GitHub release page or install by downloading the binary:

$ curl -sL https://github.com/kong/deck/releases/download/v1.41.3/deck_1.41.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz -o deck.tar.gz
$ tar -xf deck.tar.gz -C /tmp
$ sudo cp /tmp/deck /usr/local/bin/

Windows

If you are on Windows, you can download the binary from the GitHub release page or via PowerShell:

$ curl -sL https://github.com/kong/deck/releases/download/v1.41.3/deck_1.41.3_windows_amd64.tar.gz -o deck.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf deck.tar.gz

Docker image

Docker image is hosted on Docker Hub.

You can get the image with the command:

docker pull kong/deck

Documentation

You can use --help flag once you've decK installed on your system to get help in the terminal itself.

The project's documentation is hosted at https://docs.konghq.com/deck/overview.

Changelog

Changelog can be found in the CHANGELOG.md file.

Stale issue and pull request policy

To ensure our backlog is organized and up to date, we will close issues and pull requests that have been inactive awaiting a community response for over 2 weeks. If you wish to reopen a closed issue or PR to continue work, please leave a comment asking a team member to do so.

License

decK is licensed with Apache License Version 2.0. Please read the LICENSE file for more details.