Get started with Konnect

Quickstart guide

New to Kong Konnect? Get started with the basics through the web app:

1. Create a Konnect account:

   Create an account >

2. Set up a data plane node:

   Set up your first data plane node for proxying traffic.

   Start with a data plane proxy so that when your service configuration is ready, your services are immediately connected, configured, and available for testing.

   Set up a data plane node >

3. Create a Gateway service:

   Proxy a service using the Konnect Gateway Manager

   After you’ve configured a service and the data plane proxy is ready, testing is the next step. Here you set up a route to a mocking API service, then proxy traffic through the route.

   Create a service >

4. Productize an API:

   Using API Products, you can bundle and manage every service in your entire architecture. In this step, you create the first version of a service, adding the first entry to your catalog.

   Create an API product version >

Share APIs and enable development

Ready to share your API with developers? Use API Products to manage your API product documentation, then publish it to the Dev Portal:

1. Upload your spec to Konnect and publish to Dev Portal

   Upload a markdown file to describe your service, and add an OpenAPI spec for any version of the API product. Then, publish your API product documentation to the Dev Portal and preview it from the developer perspective.

   Import docs and publish an API product >

2. Register an application

   Expose your service to developers and register an application against the service.

   Expose service and register an application >