GKE

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 GKE cluster.
• Install kubectl and update your kubeconfig to point to the GKE Kubernetes cluster by running gcloud container clusters get-credentials <my-cluster-name> --zone <my-zone> --project <my-project-id>

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 IP address at which Kong is accessible. This IP 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   34.118.227.63    34.28.38.36   80:32683/TCP,443:30798/TCP      5m2s
   

2. Create an environment variable for the LoadBalancer IP.

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

   It may take some time for GKE 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.