Reference an existing Control Plane
Using Kong Gateway Operator, create a KonnectGatewayControlPlane object with spec.source: Mirror and add Konnect authentication.
Prerequisites
Kong Konnect
If you don’t have a Konnect account, you can get started quickly with our onboarding wizard.
- 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.
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Set the personal access token as an environment variable:
export KONNECT_TOKEN='YOUR KONNECT TOKEN'
Kong Gateway Operator running
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Add the Kong Helm charts:
helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com helm repo update -
Create a
kongnamespace:kubectl create namespace kong --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f - -
Install Kong Ingress Controller using Helm:
helm upgrade --install kgo kong/gateway-operator -n kong-system --create-namespace \ --set image.tag=1.6.1 \ --set kubernetes-configuration-crds.enabled=true \ --set env.ENABLE_CONTROLLER_KONNECT=true
Kong Gateway Operator running
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Add the Kong Helm charts:
helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com helm repo update -
Create a
kongnamespace:kubectl create namespace kong --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f - -
Install Kong Ingress Controller using Helm:
helm upgrade --install kgo kong/gateway-operator -n kong-system --create-namespace \ --set image.tag=1.6.1 \ --set kubernetes-configuration-crds.enabled=true \ --set env.ENABLE_CONTROLLER_KONNECT=true
Create a KonnectAPIAuthConfiguration resource
kubectl create namespace kong --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
echo '
kind: KonnectAPIAuthConfiguration
apiVersion: konnect.konghq.com/v1alpha1
metadata:
name: konnect-api-auth
namespace: kong
spec:
type: token
token: "'$KONNECT_TOKEN'"
serverURL: us.api.konghq.com
' | kubectl apply -f -
Set the Konnect Control Plane ID
Set the KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_ID variable to the ID of the control plane that you want to reference:
export KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_ID='YOUR CONTROL PLANE ID'
Create a KonnectGatewayControlPlane
Create a KonnectGatewayControlPlane object and add the Konnect authentication resource we created in the prerequisites.
echo '
kind: KonnectGatewayControlPlane
apiVersion: konnect.konghq.com/v1alpha1
metadata:
name: gateway-control-plane
namespace: kong
spec:
source: Mirror
mirror:
konnect:
id: "'$KONNECT_CONTROL_PLANE_ID'"
konnect:
authRef:
name: konnect-api-auth
' | kubectl apply -f -
Validation
Check that Programmed is True on the gateway-control-plane resource:
You can verify the KonnectGatewayControlPlane was reconciled successfully by checking its Programmed condition.
kubectl get -n kong konnectgatewaycontrolplane gateway-control-plane \
-o=jsonpath='{.status.conditions[?(@.type=="Programmed")]}' | jq
The output should look similar to this:
{
"observedGeneration": 1,
"reason": "Programmed",
"status": "True",
"type": "Programmed"
}
Now you can reference the gateway-control-plane resource from other CRDs as though it was created by Kong Gateway Operator.