Getting Started with Kong Enterprise
Introduction
Thank you for installing Kong Enterprise! The following series of Getting Started guides is designed to help you familiarize yourself with Kong Enterprise’s features and capabilities, with practical steps to start Kong Enterprise securely, access Kong Manager as a Super Admin, and create new entities such as Services.
Each guide also contains links to more in-depth material.
If you have any issues or further questions, please contact Support and they will be happy to help.
Key Concepts
The following concepts have a special meaning in Kong Enterprise:
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Plugin: a plugin executing actions inside Kong before or after a request has been proxied to the upstream API.
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Workspace: a private, segmented part of a shared Kong cluster that allows a particular team to access its own Admin API entities separately from other teams.
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Admin: a Kong Enterprise user capable of accessing Admin API entities based on a set of Permissions.
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Permission: an ability to create, read, update, or destroy an Admin API entity defined by endpoints.
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Role: a set of Permissions that may be reused and assigned to Admins.
- Super Admin: an Admin whose Role has the Permission to:
- invite and disable other Admin accounts
- assign and revoke Roles
- create new Roles with custom Permissions
- create new Workspaces
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Service: the Admin API entity representing an external upstream API or microservice.
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Route: the Admin API entity representing a way to map downstream requests to upstream services.
- Consumer: the Admin API entity representing a developer or machine using the API. When using Kong, a Consumer only communicates with Kong which proxies every call to the said upstream API.
Get Started
Add a Role and Permissions
Create sets to quickly assign multiple Admins the same permissions.
Add a Role and Permissions →