Workspaces Reference

Kong Gateway’s workspaces feature is configurable through Kong’s Admin API.

The workspace object describes the workspace entity, which has an ID and a name.

For workspace use cases and configuration examples, see Workspace Examples.

Add workspace

Endpoint

/workspaces/

Request body

Attribute	Description
`name`	The workspace name.

Response

HTTP 201 Created

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  "config": {
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    "portal": false,
    "portal_access_request_email": null,
    "portal_approved_email": null,
    "portal_auth": null,
    "portal_auth_conf": null,
    "portal_auto_approve": null,
    "portal_cors_origins": null,
    "portal_developer_meta_fields": "[{\"label\":\"Full Name\",\"title\":\"full_name\",\"validator\":{\"required\":true,\"type\":\"string\"}}]",
    "portal_emails_from": null,
    "portal_emails_reply_to": null,
    "portal_invite_email": null,
    "portal_reset_email": null,
    "portal_reset_success_email": null,
    "portal_token_exp": null
  },
  "created_at": 1557441226,
  "id": "c663cca5-c6f6-474a-ae44-01f62aba16a9",
  "meta": {
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    "thumbnail": null
  },
  "name": "green-team"
}

List workspaces

Endpoint

/workspaces/

Response

HTTP 200 OK

{
  "data": [
    {
      "comment": null,
      "config": {
        "meta": null,
        "portal": false,
        "portal_access_request_email": null,
        "portal_approved_email": null,
        "portal_auth": null,
        "portal_auth_conf": null,
        "portal_auto_approve": null,
        "portal_cors_origins": null,
        "portal_developer_meta_fields": "[{\"label\":\"Full Name\",\"title\":\"full_name\",\"validator\":{\"required\":true,\"type\":\"string\"}}]",
        "portal_emails_from": null,
        "portal_emails_reply_to": null,
        "portal_invite_email": null,
        "portal_reset_email": null,
        "portal_reset_success_email": null,
        "portal_token_exp": null
      },
      "created_at": 1557419951,
      "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "meta": {
        "color": null,
        "thumbnail": null
      },
      "name": "default"
    },
    {
      "comment": null,
      "config": {
        "meta": null,
        "portal": false,
        "portal_access_request_email": null,
        "portal_approved_email": null,
        "portal_auth": null,
        "portal_auth_conf": null,
        "portal_auto_approve": null,
        "portal_cors_origins": null,
        "portal_developer_meta_fields": "[{\"label\":\"Full Name\",\"title\":\"full_name\",\"validator\":{\"required\":true,\"type\":\"string\"}}]",
        "portal_emails_from": null,
        "portal_emails_reply_to": null,
        "portal_invite_email": null,
        "portal_reset_email": null,
        "portal_reset_success_email": null,
        "portal_token_exp": null
      },
      "created_at": 1557441226,
      "id": "c663cca5-c6f6-474a-ae44-01f62aba16a9",
      "meta": {
        "color": null,
        "thumbnail": null
      },
      "name": "green-team"
    }
  ],
  "next": null
}

Update or create a workspace

Endpoint

/workspaces/{id}

Attributes	Description
`id` conditional	The workspaces’ unique ID, if replacing it.*

The behavior of PUT endpoints is the following: if the request payload does not contain an entity’s primary key (id for workspaces), the entity will be created with the given payload. If the request payload does contain an entity’s primary key, the payload will “replace” the entity specified by the given primary key. If the primary key is not that of an existing entity, 404 NOT FOUND will be returned.

Request body

Attribute	Description
`name`	The workspace name.

Response

If creating the entity:

HTTP 201 Created

If replacing the entity:

HTTP 200 OK

{
  "comment": null,
  "config": {
    "meta": null,
    "portal": false,
    "portal_access_request_email": null,
    "portal_approved_email": null,
    "portal_auth": null,
    "portal_auth_conf": null,
    "portal_auto_approve": null,
    "portal_cors_origins": null,
    "portal_developer_meta_fields": "[{\"label\":\"Full Name\",\"title\":\"full_name\",\"validator\":{\"required\":true,\"type\":\"string\"}}]",
    "portal_emails_from": null,
    "portal_emails_reply_to": null,
    "portal_invite_email": null,
    "portal_reset_email": null,
    "portal_reset_success_email": null,
    "portal_token_exp": null
  },
  "created_at": 1557504202,
  "id": "c663cca5-c6f6-474a-ae44-01f62aba16a9",
  "meta": {
    "color": null,
    "thumbnail": null
  },
  "name": "rocket-team"
}

Retrieve a workspace

Endpoint

/workspaces/{name or id}

Attributes	Description
`name or id` required	The unique identifier or the name of the workspace to retrieve

Response

HTTP 200 OK

{
  "config": {
    "portal": false,
    "portal_developer_meta_fields": "[{\"label\":\"Full Name\",\"title\":\"full_name\",\"validator\":{\"required\":true,\"type\":\"string\"}}]"
  },
  "created_at": 1557504202,
    "id": "c663cca5-c6f6-474a-ae44-01f62aba16a9",
    "meta": { },
  "name": "rocket-team"
}

Retrieve workspace metadata

Endpoint

/workspaces/{name or id}/meta

Attributes	Description
`name or id` required	The unique identifier or the name of the workspace to retrieve

Response

HTTP 200 OK

{
  "counts": {
    "acls": 1,
    "basicauth_credentials": 1,
    "consumers": 1234,
    "files": 41,
    "hmacauth_credentials": 1,
    "jwt_secrets": 1,
    "keyauth_credentials": 1,
    "oauth2_authorization_codes": 1,
    "oauth2_credentials": 1,
    "oauth2_tokens": 1,
    "plugins": 5,
    "rbac_roles": 3,
    "rbac_users": 12,
    "routes": 15,
    "services": 2,
    "ssl_certificates": 1,
    "ssl_servers_names": 1,
    "targets": 1,
    "upstreams": 1
  }
}

Delete a workspace

Endpoint

/workspaces/{name or id}

Attributes	Description
`name or id` required	The unique identifier or the name of the workspace to delete
`cascade`	The `cascade` option lets you delete a workspace and all of its entities in one request.

Response

HTTP 204 No Content

Perform a cascading delete. Normally, deleting a workspace requires its entities to be deleted first. The cascade option lets you delete a workspace and all of its entities in one request.

DELETE /workspaces/{name or id}?cascade=true

Update a workspace

Endpoint

/workspaces/{name or id}

Attributes	Description
`name or id` required	The unique identifier or the name of the workspace to patch

Request body

Attributes	Description
`comment`	A string describing the workspace

The behavior of PATCH endpoints prevents the renaming of a workspace.

Response

HTTP 200 OK

{
  "comment": "this is a sample comment in the patch request",
  "config": {
    "meta": null,
    "portal": false,
    "portal_access_request_email": null,
    "portal_approved_email": null,
    "portal_auth": null,
    "portal_auth_conf": null,
    "portal_auto_approve": null,
    "portal_cors_origins": null,
    "portal_developer_meta_fields": "[{\"label\":\"Full Name\",\"title\":\"full_name\",\"validator\":{\"required\":true,\"type\":\"string\"}}]",
    "portal_emails_from": null,
    "portal_emails_reply_to": null,
    "portal_invite_email": null,
    "portal_reset_email": null,
    "portal_reset_success_email": null,
    "portal_token_exp": null
  },
  "created_at": 1557509909,
  "id": "c543d2c8-d297-4c9c-adf5-cd64212868fd",
  "meta": {
    "color": null,
    "thumbnail": null
  },
  "name": "green-team"
}

Access an endpoint within a workspace

Endpoint

/{name or id}/{endpoint}

Attributes	Description
`name or id` required	The unique identifier or the name of the workspace to target.

Can be used with any request method.

Target entities within a specified workspace by adding the workspace name or ID prefix before any entity endpoint.

http://<ADMIN_API_HOSTNAME>:8001/<WORKSPACE_NAME|WORKSPACE_ID>/<ENDPOINT>

For example, to target services in the workspace SRE:

http://localhost:8001/SRE/services