About Kong Manager Open Source

Kong Manager Open Source (OSS) is the graphical user interface (GUI) for Kong Gateway (OSS). It uses the Kong Admin API under the hood to administer and control Kong Gateway (OSS). To access Kong Manager OSS, go to the following URL after installing Kong Gateway (OSS): http://localhost:8002

Here are some of the things you can do with Kong Manager OSS:

Create new routes and services
Activate or deactivate plugins
Group your services, plugins, consumer management, and everything else exactly how you want them
Manage certificates
Centrally store and easily access key sets and keys.

Note: If you are using the Enterprise image of Kong Gateway, you can use the Kong Manager Enterprise.

Kong Manager OSS interface

Figure 1: Kong Manager OSS overview

Item	Description
Overview	Dashboard that contains information about your Kong Gateway (OSS).
Gateway Services	Overview of all services associated with your Kong Gateway (OSS). From this dashboard, you can add new services, manage existing services, and see all services at a glance.
Routes	Overview of all routes associated with your Kong Gateway (OSS). From this dashboard, you can add new routes, manage existing routes, and see all routes at a glance.
Consumers	Overview of all consumers associated with your Kong Gateway (OSS). From this dashboard, you can add new consumers, manage existing consumers, and see all consumers at a glance.
Plugins	Overview of all plugins associated with your Kong Gateway (OSS). From this dashboard, you can enable or disable plugins.
Upstreams	Overview of all upstreams associated with your Kong Gateway (OSS). From this dashboard, you can add new upstreams, manage existing upstreams, and see all upstreams at a glance.
Certificates	Manage your certificates for SSL/TLS termination for encrypted requests.
CA Certificates	Manage your CA certificates for client and server certificate validation.
SNIs	Manage SNI object one-to-many mappings of hostnames to a certificate.
Vaults	Manage the security of Kong Gateway (OSS) with centralized secrets.
Keys	Manage your asymmetric keys by adding a key object.
Key Sets	Manage your asymmetric key collections by adding a key set object.