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deck diff

The diff command is similar to a dry run of the ‘decK sync’ command.

It loads entities from Kong and performs a diff with the entities in local files. This allows you to see the entities that will be created, updated, or deleted.

Syntax

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

Flags

-h, --help
help for diff
--non-zero-exit-code
return exit code 2 if there is a diff present, exit code 0 if no diff is found, and exit code 1 if an error occurs. (Default: false)
--parallelism
Maximum number of concurrent operations. (Default: 10)
--rbac-resources-only
sync only the RBAC resources Kong Gateway Enterprise only. (Default: false)
--select-tag
only entities matching tags specified via this flag are diffed. When this setting has multiple tag values, entities must match each of them.
--silence-events
disable printing events to stdout (Default: false)
--skip-consumers
do not diff consumers or any plugins associated with consumers (Default: false)
-s, --state
file(s) containing Kong’s configuration. This flag can be specified multiple times for multiple files. Use - to read from stdin. (Default: [kong.yaml])
-w, --workspace
Diff configuration with a specific workspace (Kong Gateway Enterprise only). This takes precedence over _workspace fields in state files.

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")
--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.
--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-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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