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Publish and Consume Services

The Dev Portal is an API catalog that lets you document your Konnect services and share them with your developers. Developers can use the Dev Portal to locate, access, consume, and register applications against the services.

This guide walks you through setting up a sample API spec and description for the Konnect service and publishing the service to the Dev Portal. You’ll also have a chance to check out the Dev Portal live, and test out some customization options.

Prerequisites

You have configured a Konnect service with at least one version.

Upload a description

You can provide extended descriptions of your Konnect services with a Markdown (.md) file. The contents of this file will be displayed as the introduction to your API in the Dev Portal.

Konnect supports GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) for API descriptions.

  1. Write a description for your API in Markdown (.md).

    If you don’t have a file you can use for testing, copy the following text into a blank .md file:

     Here's a description with some **formatting**.

 Here's a bulleted list:
 * One
 * Two
 * Three

 You can [add relative links](/) and [absolute links](https://cloud.konghq.com).

 Try adding a codeblock for code snippets:

     This is a test

  2. In the servicehub icon Service Hub, open a service. Find the Service Document section on your service’s overview page and click Upload Document.

  3. Locate the .md file and click Open.

Upload an API spec

API specifications, or specs, can be uploaded and attached to a specific service version within your Dev Portal. Every version can have one OpenAPI spec associated with it, in JSON or YAML format.

If you brought your own spec, use it in the following steps. Otherwise, you can use the sample Vitals spec for testing.

  1. In the servicehub icon Service Hub, open a service, then pick a version.

  2. Find the the Version Spec section and click Upload Spec.

  3. Select a spec file to upload.

    The spec must be in YAML or JSON format. To test this functionality, you can use vitalsSpec.yaml as a sample spec.

This OpenAPI spec will be shown under the version name when this service is published to the Dev Portal.

Publish a service

  1. In the servicehub icon Service Hub, return to your service’s overview page.

  2. In the top right corner, click on the Service actions dropdown and select Publish to Portal.

    By default, this publishes all of the service’s version specs to a private Dev Portal site.

View the published content on Dev Portal

In this section, you can take one of two paths: keep the Dev Portal private and require a login, or switch it to public, making it visible to anyone with a link.

If you choose to make the Dev Portal public, application registration will not be available.

Note: The Dev Portal is a separate site that requires its own credentials. You can’t use your Konnect credentials to log in here.

  1. Access the Dev Portal in one of the following ways:
    • Open dev-portal icon Dev Portal from the left side menu. From there, click the Portal URL.
    • Directly visit the default Dev Portal URL:
     https://{ORG_NAME}.portal.cloud.konghq.com/

  2. Click Sign Up and fill out the form to create a developer account.

    Remember, the Dev Portal does not share credentials with your Konnect account.

  3. As an admin, return to Konnect and approve the account:

    1. From the left side menu, click connections icon Connections. This opens the Requests page and the Developers tab, which displays the pending developer request.

    2. In the row for developer request you want to approve, click the icon and choose Approve from the context menu.

      The status is updated from Pending to Approved. The developer transfers from the pending Requests page Developers tab to the Developers page.

  4. Check your email for a confirmation link. Click the link, then log into the Dev Portal.

  5. Open the service you published to check it out.

  1. Open dev-portal icon Dev Portal from the left side menu, then click Settings.

  2. In the Public Portal pane, toggle the switch to Enabled.

  3. Click Save.

  4. Access the Dev Portal in one of the following ways:
    • From the left navigation menu again, go to Dev Portal. From there, click the Portal URL.
    • Directly visit the default Dev Portal URL:
     https://{ORG_NAME}.portal.cloud.konghq.com/
  5. Open the service you published to check it out.

Customize your Dev Portal

You can customize the Dev Portal to make it your own. Let’s change up a couple of things:

  1. Return to Konnect. From the left side menu, open dev-portal icon Dev Portal, then Appearance.

  2. Try out a couple of customization options - whatever you like.

    • Choose a preset theme and adjust it to your needs
    • Set some home page text
    • Upload header, logo, or favicon images
    • Play around with the colours and fonts of your site

    You could also add a custom domain, if you have one you want to use.

  3. Click Save to apply the changes.

  4. Switch back to the Dev Portal to see your changes live.

Summary and next steps

In this topic, you:

  • Uploaded documentation to describe your service
  • Published the service to the Dev Portal
  • Logged into the Dev Portal to check out the service documentation live
  • Customized the Dev Portal

Next, register an application against the service.