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Installation Options

A data plane node is a single instance of Kong Gateway that acts as a proxy and serves traffic. In Kong Konnect, data plane nodes are managed by control planes. Control planes manage and store configurations in Kong Konnect, and data plane nodes are configured according to the configuration distributed by the control plane.

Konnect provides data plane node installation scripts for various platforms. These data plane nodes are configured to run in your Konnect environment.

Supported installation options

You can set up a data plane node by navigating to runtimes icon Gateway Manager, choosing a control plane, opening Data Plane Nodes from the side menu, then clicking on New Data Plane Node.

This brings you to a set of installation options. Choose one of the options, then follow the instructions in Konnect to finish setting up.

Konnect supports the following installation options:

Konnect install options

Standard setup:

  • macOS (ARM)
  • macOS (Intel)
  • Windows
  • Linux (Docker)

Advanced setup:

  • Linux
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud

Notes:

  • Gateway Manager includes a feature called Control Plane Launcher which can be used with any of AWS, Azure, or GCP. This feature is currently in tech preview.
  • Kong does not host data plane nodes. You must install and host your own.
  • Gateway Manager allows users to select the Kong Gateway version that they want for their Quickstart scripts (except for cloud provider quickstart scripts for AWS, Azure, and GCP). This allows you to leverage official Konnect scripts to start your gateways while reducing the number of errors due to an invalid script for a certain Kong Gateway version.
  • SSH access to Konnect data planes must be done using the cloud provider’s tools when using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud advanced setups. Direct SSH access isn’t possible because the keys are randomly generated and not exposed.

Forward proxy support

Kong Konnect supports using non-transparent forward proxies to connect your Kong Gateway data plane with the Kong Konnect control plane. See the Forward proxy connections Kong Gateway documentation for more information.

Data plane node dashboard

Data plane node dashboard

gateway data plane node dashboard

Figure 1: This image shows the Gateway data plane node dashboard. For each Gateway data plane node, you can see analytics, and host details.

KIC data plane node dashboard

KIC data plane node dashboard

Figure 2: This image shows a KIC data plane node dashboard. For each KIC data plane node, you can see details about the data plane node, analytics, and KIC status details.

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