# kong-dashboard

**Repository Path**: learning007/kong-dashboard

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: kong-dashboard
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: 1.0
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2019-04-28
- **Last Updated**: 2021-11-02

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# Kong Dashboard

[**Kong**](https://getkong.org/) is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as a API Gateway, or API Middleware).
Kong runs in front of any RESTful API and provide functionalities
and services such as requests routing, authentication, rate limiting, etc.

**Kong dashboard** is a UI tool that will let you manage your Kong Gateway setup.

## Compatibility matrix

| Kong version | Kong-Dashboard version |
|---------------------------|-----------|
| 0.6.x, 0.7.x, 0.8.x, 0.9.x|1.x.x      |


## Presentation

Click thumbnails to enlarge.

### Managing APIs

[![Listing APIs](screenshots/apis_list_thumbnail.jpg)](screenshots/apis_list.jpg?raw=true)
[![Adding API](screenshots/api_add_thumbnail.jpg)](screenshots/api_add.jpg?raw=true)

### Managing Consumers

[![Listing Consumers](screenshots/consumers_list_thumbnail.jpg)](screenshots/consumers_list.jpg?raw=true)
[![Editing Consumer](screenshots/consumer_edit_thumbnail.jpg)](screenshots/consumer_edit.jpg?raw=true)

### Managin Plugins

[![Listing Plugins](screenshots/plugins_list_thumbnail.jpg)](screenshots/plugins_list.jpg?raw=true)
[![Adding Plugin](screenshots/plugin_add_thumbnail.jpg)](screenshots/plugin_add.jpg?raw=true)

## Prerequisites

You will need:

1. a running Kong gateway. https://getkong.org/install/
2. nodejs and npm.

## Installation

### With Npm

```bash
# Install Kong Dashboard
npm install -g kong-dashboard@v1

# Start Kong Dashboard
kong-dashboard start

# To start Kong Dashboard on a custom port
kong-dashboard start -p [port]

# To start Kong Dashboard with basic auth
kong-dashboard start -a user=password

# You can set basic auth user with environment variables
# Do not set -a parameter or this will be overwritten
set kong-dashboard-name=admin && set kong-dashboard-pass=password && kong-dashboard start
```

### From sources

```bash
# Pull repository
git clone https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard.git
cd kong-dashboard
git checkout 1.0

# Build Kong Dashboard
npm install
npm run build

# Start Kong Dashboard
npm start

# To start Kong Dashboard on a custom port or with basic auth
npm start -- [-p port] [-a user=password]
```

### With Docker

[![](https://images.microbadger.com/badges/image/pgbi/kong-dashboard.svg)](https://microbadger.com/images/pgbi/kong-dashboard "Get your own image badge on microbadger.com")

```bash
# Start Kong Dashboard
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard:v1

# Start Kong Dashboard on a custom port
docker run -d -p [port]:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard:v1

# Start Kong Dashboard with basic auth
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 pgbi/kong-dashboard:v1 -a user=password
```


### With Vagrant

```bash
# Pull repository
git clone https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard.git
cd kong-dashboard
git checkout 1.0

# Start VM
vagrant up
```
## Configuration

When browsing Kong-Dashboard, you will be asked to provide the URL of your Kong node.

If you're hosting Kong on your local machine, the "Kong node URL" is not "http://localhost:8001".
It will be your machine/LAN IP, for example: "http://192.168.x.x:8001"

## Use

You can now browse your kong dashboard at http://localhost:8080