Programmatically set Kong Node URL

[tylerwiersing]

Hello, I am setting up both kong and kong-dashboard through docker and was wondering if there was a way to set the Kong Node URL programmatically instead of having to go through the ui and enter it manually every time. Ideally it would be able to be set through a curl request or something similar.

[tylerwiersing]

So I ended up solving this issue by performing this curl request curl -v GET --url http://localhost:8080/proxy/ --header 'Kong-Node-URL: http://'"$IP_ADDR"':8001' though I suspect there is a better way to do it as this seems really hacky. If there isn't another way then I propose some docs or at least this command be added to the readme for setting up through docker.

[PGBI]

Nope there isn't any other way to do. By the way, nice hack :)

When I get a moment, I'll take a look and see how this could be achieved by setting an environment variable. This would be much cleaner than a curl request.

If you have time to do this, don't hesitate to submit a PR.

[tylerwiersing]

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply! I might be able to get around to a PR this weekend if you don't get to it before then.

[machbio]

@PGBI would it not be possible to load the Kong Admin URL with the same mechanism as providing auth credentials like kong-dashboard start -url http://kong-admin:8001

[siwatpru]

Hey guys, I just submit a PR (https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard/pull/104) fixing this issue. Got it to work on my docker-compose setup now.

[luispabon]

Highly interested in this so that we can fully automate our environment deployments :+1:

[PGBI]

This is now the case with Kong Dashboard v3. No more config UI, all is done at startup: kong-dashboard start --kong-url http://kong:8001

[luispabon]

Perfect, thank you.