Deploy a data plane

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TL;DR

Create a DataPlane object and use the KonnectExtension reference.

Prerequisites

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.
  2. Set the personal access token as an environment variable:

    export KONNECT_TOKEN='YOUR KONNECT TOKEN'
    
echo '
kind: KonnectExtension
apiVersion: konnect.konghq.com/v1alpha2
metadata:
  name: my-konnect-config
  namespace: kong
spec:
  clientAuth:
    certificateSecret:
      provisioning: Automatic
  konnect:
    controlPlane:
      ref:
        type: konnectNamespacedRef
        konnectNamespacedRef:
          name: gateway-control-plane' | kubectl apply -f -

Create the data plane

Configure a Kong DataPlane by using your KonnectExtension reference:

echo '
apiVersion: gateway-operator.konghq.com/v1beta1
kind: DataPlane
metadata:
  name: dataplane-example
  namespace: kong
spec:
  extensions:
  - kind: KonnectExtension
    name: my-konnect-config
    group: konnect.konghq.com
  deployment:
    podTemplateSpec:
      spec:
        containers:
        - name: proxy
          image: kong/kong-gateway:3.13
' | kubectl apply -f -

Check the Ready status

You can verify the DataPlane was reconciled successfully by checking its Ready condition.

kubectl get -n kong dataplane dataplane-example \
  -o=jsonpath='{.status.conditions[?(@.type=="Ready")]}' | jq

The output should look similar to this:

{
  "observedGeneration": 1,
  "reason": "Ready",
  "status": "True",
  "type": "Ready"
}

If the DataPlane has Ready condition set to True then you can visit Konnect and see the dataplane in the list of connected data planes for your control plane.

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