deck file validate

The validate command reads the state file and ensures its validity. It reads all the specified state files and reports any YAML/JSON parsing issues. Additionally, it checks for foreign relationships and alerts in cases of broken relationships or missing links.

No communication takes places between decK and Kong during the execution of this command. This process is faster than online validation but may catch fewer errors. For online validation see ‘deck gateway validate’.

Syntax

deck file validate [command-specific flags] [global flags]

Flags

-h, --help

Help for validate

--json-output

Generate command execution report in a JSON format (Default: false)

--parallelism

Maximum number of concurrent requests to Kong. (Default: 10)

--rbac-resources-only

Indicate that the state file(s) contains RBAC resources only (Kong Gateway Enterprise only). (Default: false)

-w, --workspace

Validate configuration of 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")

--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)

See also

File subcommands:

• 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 convert - Convert files from one format into another format
• deck file kong2kic - Convert decK state files to Kong Ingress Controller kubernetes manifests.
• deck file kong2tf - Convert decK state files to Terraform resources.
• deck file lint - Validate a file against a ruleset
• deck file list-tags - List current tags from objects in a decK file
• deck file merge - Merge multiple decK files into one
• deck file namespace - Apply a namespace to routes in a decK file by prefixing the path.
• deck file openapi2kong - Convert OpenAPI specifications 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
• deck file render - Combines multiple complete configuration files and renders them as one Kong declarative config file.
• deck file validate - Locally validates the state file for basic structure or relationship errors.