Prepare to Administer Kong Gateway

As a Kong Gateway user, you can use Kong Manager for environment administration. You’re going to use it later on in this guide, so first make sure you can access Kong Manager.

Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8002.

If Kong Gateway was installed correctly, it automatically logs you in and presents the Kong Manager Overview page.

Ensure that you can send requests to the gateway’s Admin API using either cURL or HTTPie.

View the current configuration by issuing the following command in a terminal window:

curl -i -X GET http://localhost:8001

http localhost:8001

The current configuration returns.

1. Check that decK is connected to Kong Gateway:

    deck ping
   

   You should see a success message with the version that you’re connected to:

    Successfully connected to Kong!
    Kong version:  2.1.0
   

2. Ensure that you can pull configuration from Kong Gateway by issuing the following command in a terminal window:

    deck dump
   

   This command creates a kong.yaml file with the gateway’s entire current configuration, in the directory where decK is installed.

   You can also use this command at any time (for example, after a deck sync) to see the Kong Gateway’s most recent configuration.

   Be careful! Any subsequent deck dump will overwrite the existing kong.yaml file. Create backups as needed.

3. Open the file in your preferred code editor. Since you haven’t configured anything yet, the file should only contain the decK version:

    _format_version: "1.1"
   

   You will use this file to configure Kong Gateway.