Kong: API Gateway

Deploy Kong with Pigsty Compose templates and PostgreSQL backend storage.

Kong is an open-source API gateway.

Pigsty’s app/kong template stores configuration in PostgreSQL and runs a one-time migration job (kong-migration) automatically.

Quick Start

cd ~/pigsty/app/kong
vi .env         # check KONG_PG_* and port settings
make

Default ports:

  • Proxy HTTP: 8000
  • Proxy HTTPS: 8443
  • Admin API: 8001

Database Preparation

bin/pgsql-user pg-meta dbuser_kong
bin/pgsql-db   pg-meta kong

Connection string example:

postgres://dbuser_kong:DBUser.Kong@10.10.10.10:5432/kong

Common Commands

make log
make stop
make clean
make pull

References


Last Modified 2026-02-23: routine extension update (418140b)