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deck ping

The ping command can be used to verify if decK can connect to Kong’s Admin API.

Syntax

deck ping [command-specific flags] [global flags]

Flags

-h, --help
help for ping
-w, --workspace
Ping configuration with a specific Workspace (Kong Gateway Enterprise only). Useful when RBAC permissions are scoped to a Workspace.

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-email
Email address associated with your Konnect account.
--konnect-password
Password associated with your Konnect account, this takes precedence over --konnect-password-file flag.
--konnect-password-file
File containing the password to your Konnect account.
--konnect-runtime-group-name
Konnect runtime group name.
--konnect-token
Personal access token associated with your Konnect account, this takes precedence over the --konnect-token-file flag.
--konnect-token-file
File containing the personal access token to your Konnect account.
--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)

See also

  • deck - Administer your Kong clusters declaratively
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