Konnect Cloud
(Legacy) Shared Config
This documentation is for the legacy Konnect environment at konnect.konghq.com. For the cloud.konghq.com environment, see the current Konnect documentation.
Use the 
Shared Config page in
Konnect Cloud to manage consumers,
upstreams, certificates, SNIs, and global and consumer-scoped plugins.
- Consumers
- Consumer objects represent users of a service, and are most often used for authentication. They provide a way to divide access to your services, and make it easy to revoke that access without disturbing a service’s function.
- Plugins
- Plugins let you extend proxy functionality by adding rules, policies, transformations, and more on requests and responses.
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You can manage global and consumer-scoped plugins from the Shared Config page, and view all plugins in the cluster, including service and route plugins.
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Global plugins are plugins that apply to all services, routes, and consumers in the cluster, as applicable, and consumer-scoped plugins only apply to a specific consumer.
- Plugin object reference >
- Plugin Hub >
- Upstreams
- An upstream object represents a virtual hostname referring to your own service/API. Upstreams can be used to health check, circuit break, and load balance incoming requests over multiple services (targets).
- Certificates
- A certificate object represents a public certificate and can be paired with a corresponding private key. Certificates handle SSL/TLS termination for encrypted requests, and can be used as a trusted CA store when validating the peer certificate of a client or service.
- SNIs
- An SNI object represents a many-to-one mapping of hostnames to a certificate. A certificate object can have many hostnames associated with it, so when Kong Gateway receives an SSL request, it uses the SNI field in the ClientHello to look up the associated certificate object.