(Legacy) Runtime Manager Overview

This documentation is for the legacy Konnect environment at konnect.konghq.com. For the cloud.konghq.com environment, see the current Konnect documentation.

The Runtime Manager is a Kong Konnect functionality module that lets you catalogue, connect to, and monitor the status of all runtimes in one place.

With Konnect acting as the control plane, a runtime doesn’t need a database to store configuration data. Instead, configuration is stored in-memory on each node, and you can easily update multiple runtimes from one Konnect account with a few clicks.

The Runtime Manager, and the Kong Konnect application as a whole, does not have access or visibility into the data flowing through your runtimes, and it does not store any data except the state and connection details for each runtime.

Hosting runtimes

Kong does not host runtimes. You must provide your own runtime instances.

The Runtime Manager aims to simplify this process by providing a script to provision a Kong Gateway runtime in a Docker container, eliminating any confusion about initial configuration or setup.

Types of runtimes

Kong Gateway

A Kong Gateway runtime acts as a data plane, which is a node serving traffic for the proxy. Data plane nodes are not directly connected to a database.

Currently, the only supported runtime type in the Kong Konnect application is a Kong Gateway data plane.

Choose an installation type below: