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JWT to Header (Route by JWT Claim)

This plugin converts JWT claims into headers during the rewrite phase. This is useful for:

  • Routing requests by JWT claim, so that Kong’s route by header functionality can route the request appropriately.
  • Allowing the upstream service to consume claims as headers. Since this plugin has elements that must run in the Rewrite execution phase, it can only be configured to run globally in a Kong workspace or cluster. This plugin can be used in conjunction with other JWT validation/authentication plugins.

Installation & Usage

A tutorial, installation steps, and further information can be found at https://github.com/yesinteractive/kong-jwt2header.

Configuration Reference

This plugin is compatible with DB-less mode.

In DB-less mode, you configure Kong Gateway declaratively. Therefore, the Admin API is mostly read-only. The only tasks it can perform are all related to handling the declarative config, including:

  • Setting a target's health status in the load balancer
  • Validating configurations against schemas
  • Uploading the declarative configuration using the /config endpoint

Fully compatible with DB and DB-less (K8s, Declarative) Kong implementations.

Example plugin configuration

A plugin which is not associated to any service, route, or consumer is considered global, and will be run on every request. Read the Plugin Reference and the Plugin Precedence sections for more information.

The following examples provide some typical configurations for enabling the kong-jwt2header plugin globally.

Make the following request:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/plugins/ \
  --data "name=kong-jwt2header"  \
    --data "config.strip_claims=false" \
    --data "config.token_required=true"

Create a KongClusterPlugin resource and label it as global:

apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
kind: KongClusterPlugin
metadata:
  name: <global-kong-jwt2header>
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: kong
  labels:
    global: \"true\"
config: 
  strip_claims: false
  token_required: true
plugin: kong-jwt2header

Add a plugins entry in the declarative configuration file:

plugins:
- name: kong-jwt2header
  config: 
    strip_claims: false
    token_required: true

Parameters

Here's a list of all the parameters which can be used in this plugin's configuration:

Form Parameter Description
name
required

Type: string		 The name of the plugin, in this case kong-jwt2header.
enabled

Type: boolean

Default value: true		 Whether this plugin will be applied.
config.strip_claims
required

Default value: false

If enabled, claims will be removed from headers before being sent to the upstream. By default, each claim is passed upstream in a header prefixed with X-Kong-JWT-Claim.
config.token_required
required

Default value: true

By default, token_required is set to true, and an error will be returned if a valid JWT is not present in the request. Set it to false if you want this plugin to fail open and proceed with executing the request, regardless of whether a valid JWT is present or not.