Set up AI Proxy Advanced with Anthropic in Kong Gateway

Uses: Kong Gateway AI Gateway decK
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Minimum Version
Kong Gateway - 3.8
TL;DR

Create a Gateway Service and a Route, then enable the AI Proxy Advanced plugin, configure it with the Anthropic provider, then add the model and your API key.

Prerequisites

This is a Konnect tutorial. If you don’t have a Konnect account, you can get started quickly with our onboarding wizard.

  1. The following Konnect items are required to complete this tutorial:

    • Personal access token (PAT): Create a new personal access token by opening the Konnect PAT page and selecting Generate Token.
    • Control Plane Name: You can use an existing Control Plane or create a new one to use for this tutorial.
    • Konnect Proxy URL: By default, a self-hosted Data Plane uses http://localhost:8000. You can set up Data Plane nodes for your Control Plane from the Gateway Manager in Konnect.
  2. Set the personal access token, the Control Plane name, the Control Plane URL, and the Konnect proxy URL as environment variables:

     export DECK_KONNECT_TOKEN='YOUR KONNECT TOKEN'
     export DECK_KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_NAME='YOUR CONTROL PLANE NAME'
     export KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_URL=https://us.api.konghq.com
     export KONNECT_PROXY_URL='KONNECT PROXY URL'
    

This tutorial requires Kong Gateway Enterprise. If you don’t have Kong Gateway set up yet, you can use the quickstart script with an enterprise license to get an instance of Kong Gateway running almost instantly.

  1. Export your license to an environment variable:

     export KONG_LICENSE_DATA='LICENSE-CONTENTS-GO-HERE'
    
  2. Run the quickstart script:

     curl -Ls https://get.konghq.com/quickstart | bash -s -- -e KONG_LICENSE_DATA 
    

    Once Kong Gateway is ready, you will see the following message:

     Kong Gateway Ready
    

decK is a CLI tool for managing Kong Gateway declaratively with state files. To complete this tutorial you will first need to install decK.

For this tutorial, you’ll need Kong Gateway entities, like Gateway Services and Routes, pre-configured. These entities are essential for Kong Gateway to function but installing them isn’t the focus of this guide. Follow these steps to pre-configure them:

  1. Run the following command:

    echo '
    _format_version: "3.0"
    services:
      - name: example-service
        url: http://httpbin.konghq.com/anything
    routes:
      - name: example-route
        paths:
        - "/anything"
        service:
          name: example-service
    ' | deck gateway apply -
    

To learn more about entities, you can read our entities documentation.

For this task, you need an Anthropic API key.

  1. Create an Anthropic Console account.
  2. Generate an API key from the console settings.
  3. Create a decK variable with your API key:
    export DECK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY='ANTHROPIC API KEY'
    

Configure the plugin

To set up AI Proxy Advanced with Anthropic, we need to specify the model and Anthropic API version to use.

In this example, we’ll use the Claude 2.1 model and version 2023-06-01 of the API:

echo '
_format_version: "3.0"
plugins:
  - name: ai-proxy-advanced
    config:
      targets:
      - route_type: llm/v1/chat
        auth:
          header_name: x-api-key
          header_value: "${{ env "DECK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" }}"
        model:
          provider: anthropic
          name: claude-2.1
          options:
            anthropic_version: '2023-06-01'
            max_tokens: 1024
' | deck gateway apply -

Validate

Send a request to the Route to validate.

curl -X POST "$KONNECT_PROXY_URL/anything" \
     -H "Accept: application/json"\
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --json '{
       "messages": [
         {
           "role": "system",
           "content": "You are a mathematician"
         },
         {
           "role": "user",
           "content": "What is 1+1?"
         }
       ]
     }'
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/anything" \
     -H "Accept: application/json"\
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --json '{
       "messages": [
         {
           "role": "system",
           "content": "You are a mathematician"
         },
         {
           "role": "user",
           "content": "What is 1+1?"
         }
       ]
     }'

Cleanup

If you created a new control plane and want to conserve your free trial credits or avoid unnecessary charges, delete the new control plane used in this tutorial.

curl -Ls https://get.konghq.com/quickstart | bash -s -- -d
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