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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-control-plane-name
- Konnect control plane 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
- deck file - Subcommand to host the decK file operations
- deck file add-plugins - Add plugins to objects in a decK file
- deck file add-tags - Add tags to objects in a decK file
- deck file list-tags - List current tags from objects in a decK file
- deck file merge - Merge multiple decK files into one
- deck file openapi2kong - Convert OpenAPI files to Kong’s decK format
- deck file patch - Apply patches on top of a decK file
- deck file remove-tags - Remove tags from objects in a decK file