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Install Kong Gateway on Amazon Linux
The Kong Gateway software is governed by the Kong Software License Agreement. Kong is licensed under an Apache 2.0 license.
This page guides you through installing Kong Gateway in traditional mode, where it acts as both the control plane and data plane. Running in this mode may have a small performance impact.
We recommend using Konnect as your control plane to allow your data plane to run at maximum performance and decrease your deployment complexity.
Prerequisites
- A supported system with root or root-equivalent access.
- (Enterprise only) A
license.jsonfile from Kong.
Once you have everything you need, choose an installation path:
- Quickstart: Install script for a Kong Gateway package and PostgreSQL database
- Advanced installation: Choose your own pieces to install
Notes:
- Kong Gateway supports running on AWS Graviton processors. It can run in all AWS Regions where AWS Graviton is supported.
- In July of 2023, Kong announced that package hosting was shifting from https://download.konghq.com to https://packages.konghq.com. Read more about it in this blog post!
Note: In July of 2023, Kong announced that package hosting was shifting from https://download.konghq.com to https://packages.konghq.com. Read more about it in this blog post!
Installation
The quickest way to get started with Kong Gateway is using the install script:
This script detects your operating system and automatically installs the correct package. It also installs a PostgreSQL database and bootstraps Kong Gateway for you.
If you’d prefer to install just the Kong Gateway package, see the Package Install section.
Verify install
Once the script completes, run the following in the same terminal window:
curl -i http://localhost:8001
You should receive a 200 status code.
Next steps
Once Kong Gateway is running, you may want to do the following:
Advanced installation
Package install
You can install Kong Gateway by downloading an installation package or using the yum repository.
The following steps install the package only, without a data store. You will need to set one up after installation.
Next steps
Before starting Kong Gateway, set up a data store
and update the kong.conf.default configuration property file with a reference to your data store.
Depending on your desired environment, also see the following guides:
You can also check out Kong Gateway’s series of Getting Started guides to learn how get the most out of Kong Gateway.
