Amazon EKS

To install Kong Ingress Controller for Konnect, select a Kong Ingress Controller Control Plane in Gateway Manager and follow the instructions in the UI

Prerequisites

• Set up an EKS cluster.
• Install kubectl and update your kubeconfig to point to the EKS Kubernetes cluster by running aws eks --region $AWS_REGION update-kubeconfig --name $CLUSTER_NAME

Deploy the Kong Ingress Controller

1. Add the Kong Helm repo

    helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com
    helm repo update
   

2. Deploy the Kong Ingress Controller using Helm:

    helm install kong kong/ingress -n kong --create-namespace
   

   The results should look like this:

    NAME: kong
    LAST DEPLOYED: Tue Oct  3 15:12:38 2023
    NAMESPACE: kong
    STATUS: deployed
    REVISION: 1
    TEST SUITE: None
   

   Note: this process could take up to five minutes the first time.

Setup environment variables

Create an environment variable with the address at which Kong is accessible. This address sends requests to the Kubernetes cluster.

1. Get the IP address at which Kong is accessible:

    $ kubectl get services -n kong
   

   The results should look like this:

   NAME                 TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP                           PORT(S)                      AGE
   kong-gateway-proxy   LoadBalancer   10.63.250.199   example.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com   80:31929/TCP,443:31408/TCP   4m41s
   

2. Create an environment variable to hold the ELB hostname:

    $ export PROXY_IP=$(kubectl get -o jsonpath="{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname}" service -n kong kong-gateway-proxy)
   

   It may take some time for Amazon to associate the IP address to the kong-gateway-proxy Service.

After you’ve installed the Kong Ingress Controller, learn to use Ingress Controller, see the getting started tutorial.

Troubleshooting

In versions of Kong earlier than 2.0.0 default to using the “modern” cipher suite list. This is not compatible with ELBs when the ELB terminates TLS at the edge and establishes a new session with Kong. This error appears in the logs:

*7961 SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:1417A0C1:SSL routines:tls_post_process_client_hello:no shared cipher) while SSL handshaking

The solution is to set KONG_SSL_CIPHER_SUITE=intermediate in your environment variables.