Kong is a popular open-source API gateway that can be used for securing, managing, and scaling APIs. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Kong on a Fedora server.
Before proceeding with the installation, you will need the following:
The first step in installing Kong is to make sure your system is up-to-date with the latest packages:
sudo dnf update -y
Kong is not available in the default Fedora repositories. Therefore, we need to add the Kong repository to our system. Run the following command to install the repository:
sudo dnf install -y https://bintray.com/kong/kong-community-edition-rpm/download_file?file_path=rpm%2Fkong-community-edition-2.0.3.el7.noarch.rpm
Once the repository is added successfully, we can proceed with the installation of Kong:
sudo dnf install -y kong-community-edition
Let's start Kong and make sure it starts automatically on system boot:
sudo systemctl start kong
sudo systemctl enable kong
Kong has been installed successfully. Let's verify the installation by running the following command:
kong health
If you see the following output, it means Kong is running and healthy:
nginx..............running
kong...............running
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kong on your Fedora server.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Kong on a Fedora server. Kong is a powerful API gateway that can be used to secure and manage your APIs.
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