Kong is an open-source API gateway that can be installed on Linux Mint. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process.
Before installing Kong, you need to make sure you have the following prerequisites:
If you don't have these prerequisites, you can install them by following their respective guides.
The first step is to install the dependencies required for Kong. To do this, open your terminal and update the package repository by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Once the update process is complete, run the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -y wget openssl libpcre3 procps perl gnupg1 curl
Next, we need to add the Kong repository to our system. To do this, run the following commands in your terminal:
echo "deb https://kong.bintray.com/kong-deb `lsb_release -sc` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kong.list
curl -fsSL https://konghq.com/key/pubring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
Now, run the following command to update your system with the Kong repository:
sudo apt-get update
Finally, run the following command to install Kong:
sudo apt-get install -y kong
To confirm that Kong is installed successfully, run the following command:
kong version
This command will print the version of Kong installed on your system.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Kong on Linux Mint. You also verified the installation by running a version check. Now you can go ahead and start using Kong!
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