Install packed plugin

[rmaugusto]

The feature of installing custom plugins is great.
But all .lua files must be in the same directory because of configmap issue.
It would be interesting to add tar.gz or .rock in configmap with all directory structure and dependencies and to unpack in startup time.
Configmap is readonly, maybe you could merge all plugins to an emptyDir.

[hbagdi]

It is unlikely that we will add this feature. We provide a way to configure plugins via ConfigMaps for simple use-cases but it was never intended to work for each and every case.

Even so, we have accepted #24 which provides an alternate solution for plugins with multiple sub-directories.

I'd advise that for complicated plugins you should build a Docker image based on Kong's official Docker image.

[rainest]

Version 1.3.0 of the Kong chart is now released.

It includes the new plugin subdirectory handling system at https://github.com/Kong/charts/blob/kong-1.3.0/charts/kong/values.yaml#L131-L150, which is not the same as this request, but should work for plugins with subdirectories.

There's still not a means of handling plugins with external dependencies through that system. For now, the only way to handle those is via custom image builds.