Kong Apollo Server

In an effort to bootstrap the value of the Apollo GraphQL Server and the Kong API Gateway - we've developed the kong-apollo-quickstart project. It leverages the querying power of GraphQL and the protection of a gateway, in a Docker container pre-configured to get you up and running quickly.

Kong Apollo server is a server that gives more power to your Open API specification and lets you to spin up your own Apollo GraphQL server using a Swagger file or your Graphql code.

Usage and configuration

This image can either be started by providing typeDefs and resolvers on the apollo.js file, or by providing an OpenAPI spec file through the OAS_URI environment variable.

Note that everything in apollo.js is used to start the Apollo server, be it an Apollo engine API_KEY, custom resolvers, schema, typeDefs, custom authorization, etc.

Running the Docker image

# Build Docker image from a Docker file
docker build -t kong-apollo-server:0.1 .

# Run container from the image that we build in the previous step
docker run -it -d \
   -e OAS_URI='https://swapi-with-ids.eskerda.now.sh/oas.yml'
   -p 3009:3009 \
   -t kong-apollo-server:0.1

# Now you can access a GraphQL Playground on http://localhost:3009/graphql

apollo.js can either be customized and the image rebuilt, or a new file can be mounted when starting the container as:

docker run -it -d \
   -v path/to/an/apollo.js:/kongql/apollo.js \
   -p 3009:3009 \
   -t kong-apollo-=server:0.1

Configuration Parameters

Name	Type	Example
OAS_URI	String	https://swapi-with-ids.eskerda.now.sh/oas.yml
APOLLO_PLAYGROUND_ENABLED	Boolean	true
APOLLO_INTROSPECTION_ENABLED	Booolean	true
APOLLO_SERVER_PORT	Number	3009
APOLLO_API_KEY	String	some-api-key