Kong Gateway OSS [ARCHIVE]
0.10.x
5-minute Quickstart
Introduction
Before you start: Make sure you've
installed Kong — It should only take a minute!
In this section, you’ll learn how to manage your Kong instance. First we’ll have you start Kong in order to give you access to the RESTful Admin interface, through which you manage your APIs, consumers, and more. Data sent through the Admin API is stored in Kong’s datastore (Kong supports PostgreSQL and Cassandra).
1. Start Kong.
Issue the following command to [start][CLI] Kong:
```bash
$ kong start
```
**Note:** The CLI also accepts a configuration (`-c <path_to_config>`)
option allowing you to point to different configurations.
2. Verify that Kong has started successfully
The previous step runs migrations to prepare your database.
Once these have finished you should see a message (`Kong started`)
informing you that Kong is running.
By default Kong listens on the following ports:
:8000
on which Kong listens for incoming HTTP traffic from your clients, and forwards it to your upstream services.:8443
on which Kong listens for incoming HTTPS traffic. This port has a similar behavior as the:8000
port, except that it expects HTTPS traffic only. This port can be disabled via the configuration file.:8001
on which the Admin API used to configure Kong listens.:8444
on which the Admin API listens for HTTPS traffic.
3. Stop Kong.
As needed you can stop the Kong process by issuing the following
[command][CLI]:
```bash
$ kong stop
```
4. Reload Kong.
Issue the following command to [reload][CLI] Kong without downtime:
```bash
$ kong reload
```
Next Steps
Now that you have Kong running you can interact with the Admin API.
To begin, go to Adding your API ›