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Michael Heap
Director of Developer Relations,
Kong
Controlling your
Kong Gateway with
decK and CI/CD
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“What do you mean production
is down? It was only a config
change”
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● Developer Relations at Kong
● Wrote a book on configuration
change management with Ansible
● Has still broken production with a
configuration change
I’m Michael
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Today’s Plan
1. Introduce decK
2. Configure a new Kong Gateway instance
3. Back up our Gateway config using decK
4. Change our plugin configuration and
apply the change with decK
5. Build a CI/CD flow to automatically
apply those changes
Basics
6. Manual review using environments and
deck-diff
7. Distributed configuration (teams
manage their own 🥳)
8. From zero to running gateway using
declarative configuration
Advanced Usage
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Configuration management and drift
detection for Kong
Introducing decK
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Features
decK
Export
Backup an existing Gateway
to a declarative configuration
file
Import
Populate Kong’s database
from a configuration file
Diff
Visualise the difference
between your configuration
and the current Gateway
state
Validate
Ensure that your
configuration file is valid and
will apply cleanly to your
Gateway
Distributed Config
Merge service definitions
from multiple sources to
build a single source of truth
Automate
decK is designed to be run
as part of your CI system
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2 Configuring
Kong Gateway
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3 Creating backups
with decK
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4 Applying changes
declaratively
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5 Using decK with CI/CD
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Today’s Plan
1. Introduce decK ✅
2. Configure a new Kong Gateway instance
✅
3. Back up our Gateway config using decK
✅
4. Change our plugin configuration and
apply the change with decK ✅
5. Build a CI/CD flow to automatically
apply those changes ✅
Basics
6. Manual review using environments and
deck-diff
7. Distributed configuration (teams
manage their own 🥳)
8. From zero to running gateway using
declarative configuration
Advanced Usage
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6 Reviewing changes
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7 Distributed Configuration
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8 From zero to running
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One More Thing
decK also works
with Kong Konnect