aulisius / kong-plugin-upstream-auth-basic

Kong Plugin to add HTTP Basic Authentication to the upstream request header

Kong Upstream HTTP Basic Authentication (upstream-auth-basic)

Kong Plugin to add HTTP Basic Authentication to the upstream request header.

Compatible with Kong 2.0

Installation

1. The Golang package manager must be installed.
2. Kong must be Installed and you must be familiar with using and configuring Kong.
3. Install the module upstream-auth-basic.

go build -buildmode=plugin github.com/aulisius/kong-plugin-upstream-auth-basic

4. Add the custom plugin while starting Kong

-e "KONG_PLUGINS=bundled,upstream-auth-basic"

5. Restart kong

Plugin Fields

The plugin accepts the following fields.

Name	Type	Required	Description
username	text	true	The username to send in the Authorization header to the upstream service
password	text	false	The password to send in the Authorization header to the upstream service