Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes (KIC)
Use Kong for Kubernetes Ingress. Configure plugins, health checking, load balancing and more in Kong for Kubernetes Services, all using Custom Resource Definitions(CRDs) and Kubernetes-native tooling.
Features | Get started | Documentation | main branch builds | Seeking help
Features
- Ingress routing Use Ingress resources to configure Kong
- Enhanced API management using plugins Use a wide-array of plugins to monitor, transform, protect your traffic.
- Native gRPC support Proxy gRPC traffic and gain visibility into it using Kong's plugin.
- Health checking and Load-balancing Load balance requests across your pods and supports active & passive health-checks.
- Request/response transformations Use plugins to modify your requests/responses on the fly.
- Authentication Protect your services using authentication methods of your choice.
- Declarative configuration for Kong Configure all of Kong using CRDs in Kubernetes and manage Kong declaratively.
Get started
You can use Minikube, Kind on your local machine or use a hosted k8s service like GKE.
Setting up Kong for Kubernetes is as simple as:
# using YAMLs
$ kubectl apply -f https://bit.ly/k4k8s
# or using Helm
$ helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com
$ helm repo update
# Helm 3
$ helm install kong/kong --generate-name --set ingressController.installCRDs=false
Once installed, please follow the Getting Started guide to start using Ingress in your Kubernetes cluster.
Note: Kong Enterprise users, please follow along our enterprise guide to setup the enterprise version.
Contributing
We ❤️ pull requests, and we’re continually working hard to make it as easy as possible for developers to contribute. Before beginning development with the Kong Ingress, please familiarize yourself with the following developer resources:
Documentation
All documentation around Kong Ingress Controller is present in the kong/docs.konghq.com repository. Pull Requests are welcome for additions and corrections.
Guides and Tutorials
Please browse through guides to get started or understand how to configure a specific setting with Kong Ingress Controller.
main branch builds
Nightly pre-release builds of the main
branch are available from the
kong/nightly-ingress-controller repository hosted on Docker Hub:
main
contains unreleased new features for upcoming minor and major releases:
docker pull kong/nightly-ingress-controller:nightly
Seeking help
Please search through the posts on Kong Nation as it's likely that another user has run into the same problem. If you don't find an answer, please feel free to post a question. For a feature request, please post in Feature Suggestions category.
You can also talk to the developers behind Kong in the #kong channel on the Kubernetes Slack server.
If you've spotted a bug, please open an issue on our Github.
Preview and Experimental Features
At any time the KIC may include features or options that are considered experimental and are not enabled by default, nor available in the Kong Documentation Site.
To try out new features that are behind feature gates, please see the preview features in FEATURE_GATES.md and documentation for these preview features can be found in FEATURE_PREVIEW_DOCUMENTATION.md.
Community meetings
You can join monthly meetups hosted by Kong to ask questions, provide feedback or just to listen and hang out. See the Online Meetups Page to sign up and receive meeting invites and Zoom links.