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Setup (Kong + Konga) as API Gateway

Kelvin on April 09, 2020

Welcome! You are about to start on a journey about and how to setup kong as an API Gateway for your infrastructure. In this second chapter, We are ...

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jamallmahmoudi • Oct 24 '22

Hi cool& perfect

Kelvin • Oct 25 '22

if this helps please support me so i can produce more quality content to help other developers

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TechDebtDevin • Apr 8

Do not give this guy money for this guide until he improves it. I'd happily give him money to delete this fucking thing tbh.

Ayyappa • Jul 22 '20

@vousmeevoyez : Unfortunately, running the same exact script giving below error
'FATAL: database "konguser" does not exist'

Kelvin • Jul 23 '20

Hi could you share more details? do you run it using start.sh? or just docker-compose?

Ayyappa • Jul 23 '20

I ran with start.sh script
Also what i noticed was the db name needs to be kong always else kong is throwing kong database doesn't exist.

Kelvin • Aug 30 '20

yes, I forgot to mention that in article. thanks man

giesberge • Jul 30 '21

I've tried from both and I have the same error,

Kelvin • Jul 31 '21

hi could you share your error?

giesberge • Jul 31 '21

database "konguser" does not exist. This is also after running a docker system prune:
pastebin.com/yJkp7BYK

Kelvin • Aug 1 '21

Hi giesberge can you try with this following sequence

docker system prune --volumes
mv .env.sample .env
update .env from

KONGA_ENV=production

KONGA_ENV=development

./start.sh
go to localhost:9000

if this helps please support me so i can produce more quality content to help other developers

giesberge • Aug 2 '21

Already done, I even tried changing the db_names but that didn't work. pastebin.com/wmcHb9Tw

Kelvin • Aug 2 '21

I've notice you're using windows. Did you use wsl? And what terminal are you running? Command prompt?

Tikam Singh Alma • Aug 10 '20

I ran with start.sh script
db_1 | FATAL: database "konguser" does not exist

Kelvin • Aug 30 '20

Hi Tikam, sorry for slow response. Been very busy this couple months. try stop and clearing all volumes

docker-compose down
docker system prune --volumes

also use this setting as .env

# KONG SETTING
KONG_DB_NAME=db_kong
KONG_DB_USERNAME=konguser
KONG_DB_PASSWORD=kongpassword
KONG_DB_HOST=db
KONG_DB_PORT=5432

KONG_DATABASE=postgres
KONG_PROXY_ACCESS_LOG=/dev/stdout
KONG_ADMIN_ACCESS_LOG=/dev/stdout
KONG_PROXY_ERROR_LOG=/dev/stderr
KONG_ADMIN_ERROR_LOG=/dev/stderr
KONG_ADMIN_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:8001, 0.0.0.0:8444 ssl

KONG_PROXY_PORT=8000
KONG_PROXY_SSL_PORT=8443

# KONGA SETTING
KONGA_DB_NAME=db_konga
KONGA_DB_USERNAME=kongauser
KONGA_DB_PASSWORD=kongapassword
KONGA_DB_HOST=db
KONGA_DB_PORT=5432

KONGA_TOKEN_SECRET=some-secret-token
KONGA_ENV=production
KONGA_PORT=9000

Tikam Singh Alma • Aug 30 '20

Thank you so much @kelvin for the help.

Tiago Stapenhorst Martins • Mar 8 '21

Brilliant post dude! Your guide is valuable and well written.
I have been trying with no success to setup Kong and Konga with docker a while ago by following their git and official pages. Their documentation aren't very friendly indeed.
Thanks!

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TechDebtDevin • Apr 8

This is my third time writing this comment, the first two were too mean and somewhat stupid on my part. However, I do want to emphasize that this is not a great guide and you are far better off setting up Kong and Konga on your own via their docs. I really wish authors would delete these guides or improve them, its clear 90% of people hit very confusing errors following this process and wasted a ton of time in the process. Just read kong docs. Crazy this guy asks for people to give him money, please improve your guide or delete it @vousmeevoyez. Yes I'm getting the same error 50x that everyone else has described here, your recommended fixes are not fixes and only cause us to waste more time. Please please delete or fix. I really don't want to be mean or rude here but its hard to be nice when this guide caused me such a massive headache.

Hendi Santika • Dec 28 '23

Can We add all the env vars from .env file to docker-compose.yml file?

Kelvin • Jan 1

yes you can

Hendi Santika • Jan 1

But, I tried it and it was failed. ENV not detected

Kelvin • Jan 1

can you tried edit

    kong-migrations:
      image: kong:latest
      entrypoint: sh -c "sleep 10 && kong migrations bootstrap -v"
      environment:
        KONG_DATABASE: ${KONG_DATABASE}
        KONG_PG_HOST: ${KONG_DB_HOST}
        KONG_PG_DATABASE: ${KONG_DB_NAME}
        KONG_PG_USER: ${KONG_DB_USERNAME}
        KONG_PG_PASSWORD: ${KONG_DB_PASSWORD}

    kong-migrations:
      image: kong:latest
      entrypoint: sh -c "sleep 10 && kong migrations bootstrap -v"
      env_file:
        - .env
      depends_on:
      - db
      networks:
      - kong-net
      restart: on-failure

    kong:
      image: kong:latest
      restart: on-failure
      env_file:
        - .env
      ports:
      - $KONG_PROXY_PORT:8000
      - $KONG_PROXY_SSL_PORT:8443
        #- $KONG_PROXY_ADMIN_API_PORT:8001
        #- $KONG_PROXY_ADMIN_SSL_API_PORT:8444
      networks:
      - kong-net

    konga:
      image: pantsel/konga
      env_file:
        - .env
      restart: on-failure
      ports:
      - $KONGA_PORT:1337
      depends_on:
      - db
      networks:
      - kong-net