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deck

The deck tool helps you manage Kong clusters with a declarative configuration file.

It can be used to export, import, or sync entities to Kong.

Global flags

--analytics

Share anonymized data to help improve decK. Use --analytics=false to disable this. (Default: true)

--ca-cert

Custom CA certificate (raw contents) to use to verify Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_CA_CERT environment variable. This takes precedence over --ca-cert-file flag.

--ca-cert-file

Path to a custom CA certificate to use to verify Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_CA_CERT_FILE environment variable.

--config

Config file (default is $HOME/.deck.yaml).

--headers

HTTP headers (key:value) to inject in all requests to Kong’s Admin API. This flag can be specified multiple times to inject multiple headers.

--kong-addr

HTTP address of Kong’s Admin API. This value can also be set using the environment variable DECK_KONG_ADDR environment variable. (Default: "http://localhost:8001")

--kong-cookie-jar-path

Absolute path to a cookie-jar file in the Netscape cookie format for auth with Admin Server. You may also need to pass in as header the User-Agent that was used to create the cookie-jar.

--konnect-addr

Address of the Konnect endpoint. (Default: "https://us.api.konghq.com")

--konnect-token

Token associated with your Konnect account. This takes precedence over the --konnect-token-file flag.

--konnect-token-file

File containing the token associated with your Konnect account.

--konnect-runtime-group-name

Konnect runtime group name.

--no-color

Disable colorized output (Default: false)

--skip-workspace-crud

Skip API calls related to Workspaces (Kong Gateway Enterprise only). (Default: false)

--timeout

Set a request timeout for the client to connect with Kong (in seconds). (Default: 10)

--tls-client-cert

PEM-encoded TLS client certificate to use for authentication with Kong’s Admin API. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_CLIENT_CERT environment variable. Must be used in conjunction with tls-client-key

--tls-client-cert-file

Path to the file containing TLS client certificate to use for authentication with Kong’s Admin API. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_CLIENT_CERT_FILE environment variable. Must be used in conjunction with tls-client-key-file

--tls-client-key

PEM-encoded private key for the corresponding client certificate . This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_CLIENT_KEY environment variable. Must be used in conjunction with tls-client-cert

--tls-client-key-file

Path to file containing the private key for the corresponding client certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_CLIENT_KEY_FILE environment variable. Must be used in conjunction with tls-client-cert-file

--tls-server-name

Name to use to verify the hostname in Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_SERVER_NAME environment variable.

--tls-skip-verify

Disable verification of Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_SKIP_VERIFY environment variable. (Default: false)

--verbose

Enable verbose logging levels Setting this value to 2 outputs all HTTP requests/responses between decK and Kong. (Default: 0)

decK CLI commands

• deck completion - Generate completion script
• deck convert - Convert files from one format into another format
• deck diff - Diff the current entities in Kong with the one on disks
• deck dump - Export Kong configuration to a file
• deck ping - Verify connectivity with Kong
• deck reset - Reset deletes all entities in Kong
• deck sync - Sync performs operations to get Kong’s configuration to match the state file
• deck validate - Validate the state file
• deck version - Print the decK version