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decK and Kong Gateway Enterprise

All features of decK work with both Kong Gateway (OSS) and Kong Gateway Enterprise.

For Kong Gateway Enterprise, decK provides a few additional features leveraging the power of enterprise features.

Compatibility

decK is compatible with Kong Gateway Enterprise 0.35 and above.

Entities managed by decK

decK manages only the core proxy entities in Kong Gateway Enterprise. It doesn’t manage enterprise-only entities such as admins, RBAC permissions, RBAC roles, or any entities related to Dev Portal.

For a full list, see the reference for entities managed by decK.

RBAC

If you have authentication and RBAC configured for Kong’s Admin API, provide the RBAC token to decK so that decK can authenticate itself against the Admin API.

Use the --headers flag to pass the RBAC token to decK. For example, you can pass the token as a string:

deck gateway diff kong.yaml --headers "kong-admin-token:<your-token>"

However, passing the token directly is not secure and should only be used for testing. The command and all of its flags are logged to your shell’s history file, potentially leaking the token.

For a more secure approach, you can store the token in a file and load the file as you execute the command. For example:

deck gateway diff kong.yaml --headers "kong-admin-token:$(cat token.txt)"

You can also use the DECK_HEADERS environment variable to supply the same token with an environment variable.

It is advised that you do not use an RBAC token with super admin privileges with decK, and always scope down the exact permissions you need to give decK.

Endpoints used by decK

decK uses Kong’s Admin API to communicate with Kong Gateway. If you have RBAC enabled, you need to give decK permissions to perform operations, or use an admin account that has these permissions.

Here are some common endpoints hit by decK for normal operations:

  • GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE /{entityType} or GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE /{workspace}/{entityType}: Perform read and write operations on entities.

    If you are running Kong Gateway Enterprise, then decK interacts with entities inside workspaces. See the Entities managed by decK reference for the full list.

    Note that decK also performs operations on entities enabled by plugins, such as /basic-auths, /jwts, and so on.

  • GET /: Get the Kong Gateway version.
  • GET /{workspace}/kong: Get entities in a workspace.
  • GET /{workspace}/workspaces/{entityType}: Check whether the workspace or other entity exists or not.
  • GET /{workspace}/schemas/{entityType}: Retrieves the schema for a specified entity type within a workspace and applies default settings.
  • GET /{workspace}/schemas/plugins/{pluginName}: Retrieves the schema for a specified plugin within a workspace and applies default settings.
  • POST /workspaces: Create missing workspaces.

To find out which endpoints your instance of decK is hitting, execute any decK command with the --verbose 1 flag. This outputs all of the queries being made. For example, here’s a snippet from deck gateway dump --verbose 1:

...
GET /routes?size=1000 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8001
User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip


GET /consumers?size=1000 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8001
User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip


GET /mtls-auths?size=1000 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8001
User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip


GET /snis?size=1000 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8001
User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip
...

Workspaces

decK is workspace-aware, meaning it can interact with multiple workspaces.

Manage one workspace at a time

To manage the configuration of a specific workspace, use the --workspace flag with sync, diff, ping, dump, or reset. For example, to export the configuration of the workspace my-workspace:

deck dump --workspace my-workspace

If you do not specify a --workspace flag, decK uses the default workspace.

To set a workspace directly in the state file, use the _workspace parameter. For example:

_format_version: "3.0"
_workspace: default
services:
- name: example_service

Note: decK cannot delete workspaces. If you use --workspace or --all-workspaces with deck reset, decK deletes the entire configuration inside the workspace, but not the workspace itself.

Manage multiple workspaces

You can manage the configurations of all workspaces in Kong Gateway Enterprise with the --all-workspaces flag:

deck gateway dump -o kong.yaml --all-workspaces

This creates one configuration file per workspace.

However, since a workspace is an isolated unit of configuration, decK doesn’t allow the deployment of multiple workspaces at a time. Therefore, each workspace configuration file must be deployed individually:

deck gateway sync workspace1.yaml --workspace workspace1

deck gateway sync workspace2.yaml --workspace workspace2

Be careful when using the --all-workspaces flag to avoid overwriting the wrong workspace. We recommend using the singular --workspace flag in most situations.