Kong Cookbook

Chef cookbook to install Kong: An open-source management layer for APIs, delivering high performance and reliability.

Requirements

Supported Platforms

This cookbook has been tested on the following platforms:

• Amazon Linux
• CentOS
• Debian
• Ubuntu

Please, let me know if you use it successfully on any other platform.

Required Cookbooks

• cassandra-dse
• netstat
• ssl_certificate
• serf

Required Applications

• Chef 12 or higher.
• Ruby 2.2 or higher.

Attributes

Attribute	Default	Description
node['kong']['version']	'0.8.2'	Kong version to install.
node['kong']['mirror']	calculated	Kong URL path without including the file name.
node['kong']['kong.yml']	calculated	Kong YAML configuration options. See the default configuration values.
node['kong']['kong.conf']	calculated	Kong .conf configuration options for versions 0.9.0 and above. See the default configuration values.
node['kong']['manage_ssl_certificate']	calculated	Whether to manage HTTPS certificate creation using the ssl_certificate cookbook.
node['kong']['manage_cassandra']	calculated	Whether to manage Cassandra server installation using the cassandra-dse cookbook.
node['kong']['wait_for_cassandra']	300	Time in seconds to wait for Cassandra to start. Only used with manage_cassandra enabled.
node['kong']['pid_file']	calculated	Kong nginx PID file path.
node['kong']['kong.yml']['template']['cookbook']	'kong'	Kong template cookbook.

Platform Support Related Attributes

Some cookbook attributes are used internally to support the different platforms. Surely you want to change them if you want to support new platforms or want to improve the support of some platforms already supported.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['kong']['required_packages']	calculated	Some packages required by Kong.
node['kong']['package_file']	calculated	Kong package file name.
node['kong']['package_checksum']	calculated	Kong package file checksum.

Recipes

kong::default

Installs and configures Kong.

kong::cassandra

Installs and configures Cassandra.

Usage Examples

Including in a Cookbook Recipe

You can simply include it in a recipe:

include_recipe 'kong'

Don't forget to include the kong cookbook as a dependency in the metadata.

# metadata.rb
# [...]

depends 'kong', '~> 0.1.0'

Including in the Run List

Another alternative is to include the default recipe in your Run List:

{
  "name": "api.example.com",
  "[...]": "[...]",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[kong]"
  ]
}

Configuring the Cassandra Server Address

It is highly recommended to use an external Cassandra server with this cookbook.

For example:

node.default['kong']['kong.yml']['cassandra']['contact_points'] =
  'cassandra.example.com'

include_recipe 'kong'

Or for kong.conf:

node.default['kong']['kong.conf']['cassandra_contact_points'] =
  'cassandra.example.com'

include_recipe 'kong'

If you want to use the local Cassandra server installed by this cookbook, it is recommended to set the following attributes:

node.default['cassandra']['config']['cluster_name'] = # ...
node.default['cassandra']['install_method'] = # ...
# node.default['cassandra'][...]
# ...

include_recipe 'kong'

See the cassandra-dse cookbook documentation.

By default, this cookbook installs a local Cassandra server if the 'hosts' attribute is not set or includes 'localhost'. You can use the node['kong']['manage_cassandra'] attribute to force this behavior.

The HTTPS Certificate

This cookbook uses the ssl_certificate cookbook to create the HTTPS certificate. The namespace used is node['kong']. For example:

node.default['kong']['common_name'] = 'api.example.com'
include_recipe 'kong'

See the ssl_certificate namespace documentation for more information.

You can disable the SSL certificate creation by setting the node['kong']['kong.yml']['ssl_cert_path'] and node['kong']['kong.yml']['ssl_key_path'] attributes. You can use the node['kong']['manage_ssl_certificate'] attribute to force this behavior.

Testing

See TESTING.md.

Contributing

Please do not hesitate to open an issue with any questions or problems.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

TODO

See TODO.md.

License and Author

Author:	Xabier de Zuazo (xabier@zuazo.org)
Contributor:	Mark Keisler
Contributor:	Alexander Vynnyk
Contributor:	Igor Moroz
Contributor:	Yves Jans
Copyright:	Copyright (c) 2015-2016, Xabier de Zuazo
License:	Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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