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How to install Kong Enterprise and on Amazon Linux

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Installation Steps

$ sudo yum update
$ wget 'https://<BINTRAY_USER:<PASSWORD>@bintray.com/kong/kong-enterprise-edition-aws/rpm' -O bintray-kong-kong-enterprise-edition-aws.repo --auth-no-challenge
$ sudo mv bintray-kong-kong-enterprise-edition-aws.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-kong-kong-enterprise-edition-aws.repo

Ensure baseurl is correct

baseurl=https://<BINTRAY_USER>:<BINTRAY_API_KEY>@kong.bintray.com/kong-enterprise-edition-aws

$ sudo yum install kong-enterprise-edition
$ sudo yum install postgresql postgresql-server
$ sudo service postgresql-setup initdb
$ sudo service postgresql start
$ sudo -i -u postgres (puts you into new shell)

Note: <USERNAME> is obtained from your access key, by appending a %40kong to it (encoded form of @kong). For example, if your access key is bob-company, your username will be bob-company%40kong.

Create kong user

$ psql
> CREATE USER kong; CREATE DATABASE kong OWNER kong; ALTER USER kong WITH password 'kong'; 
> \q
> quit

# Change entries from ident to md5
$ sudo vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
$ sudo service postgresql restart

# add contents of license file
$ sudo vi /etc/kong/license.json

# Uncomment and add 'kong' to pg_password line
$ sudo vi [/path/to/kong.conf]

# Run migrations and start kong
$ kong migrations up [-c /path/to/kong.conf]
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/kong start [-c /path/to/kong.conf]

Note: You may use kong.conf.default or create your own configuration.

Install HTTPie to Make Commands more Easily

$ sudo yum install python-pip
$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
$ sudo pip install --upgrade httpie

Verify Kong Installation

$ http :8001/apis name=demo uris=/ upstream_url=http://httpbin.org
$ http :8000/ip

Install Kong Manager

# Get the local IP address
$ ifconfig 

# Uncomment the admin_listen setting, and update to something like this `admin_listen = 172.31.3.8:8001`
$ sudo vi [/path/to/kong.conf] 

# Restart kong
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/kong stop 
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/kong start [-c /path/to/kong.conf]

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