Proxy and Test a Service

Create a Konnect Gateway service to proxy your APIs. In this guide, you will create, proxy, and test a gateway service using Gateway Manager in Konnect.

When you create a service, you also specify the route to it. This route, combined with the proxy URL for the service, will lead to the endpoint specified in the API product deployment.

Prerequisites

If you’re following the Konnect quickstart guide, make sure you have configured a data plane node.

Implement a Gateway service

In the Gateway Manager, select the Default control plane and follow these steps:

1. Select Gateway Services from the side navigation bar, then New Gateway Service.

2. From the Add a Gateway Service dialog, create a new service:

   1. Enter a unique name for the Gateway service, or specify a Gateway service that doesn’t yet have a version connected to it.

      For the purpose of this example, enter example_gateway_service.

      The name can be any string containing letters, numbers, or the following characters: ., -, _, ~, or :. Do not use spaces.

      For example, you can use example_service, ExampleService, Example-Service. However, Example Service is invalid.

   2. In the add using upstream URL field, enter http://httpbin.org.

   3. Use the defaults for the remaining fields.

   4. Click Save.

3. Add a route to your service implementation by clicking the Add a Route button now visible from the Gateway service dashboard.

   For this example, enter the following:

   • Name: httpbin
   • Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS
   • Path(s): /mock

4. Click Save.

Verify the implementation

If you used the Docker script to connect a data plane earlier in Configure a data plane node, your default proxy URL is localhost:8000.

Enter the proxy URL into your browser’s address bar and append the route path you just set. The final URL should look something like this:

http://localhost:8000/mock

If successful, you should see the homepage for httpbin.org. In the Gateway Manager you will now see a 200 responses recorded in the Analytics tab.

And that’s it! You have your first service set up, running, and routing traffic proxied through a Kong Gateway data plane node.

Summary and next steps

To summarize, in this topic you:

• Implemented a Gateway service example_gateway_service and the route /mock. This means if an HTTP request is sent to the Kong Gateway node and it matches route /mock, that request is sent to http://httpbin.org.
• Abstracted a backend/upstream service and put a route of your choice on the front end, which you can now give to clients to make requests.

Next, productize your service with an API product.