This post is announcing the open sourcing of a project I’ve been using at FactSet, kong-env, a tool for downloading and installing, to a local directory, a completely self-contained development environment for a particular enterprise version of Kong. Usage is pretty simple:
$ ./kong-env.py -v 1.3
2020-01-14 10:05:49,397: initializing self-contained kong enterprise development environment: version=1.3
... <a bunch of output>
2020-01-14 10:14:30,251: done
This creates a directory under the current working direction, name kong-<version>, which contains everything you need to run a local Kong instance, including a compiled openresty with the lua-kong-nginx-module, a luarocks install pointing at all the right places, and the kong-community luarock installed at the right version. Attaching to said directory is straightforward:
$ source kong-1.3/bin/activate
(kong-1.3) $
Detaching being source’ing the deactivate script, ala python virtual environments. Creating a local plugin development environment, once the environment is sourced, is basically git clone’ing the kong repository, then creating your kong-plugin development directory next to the kong repository directory.
Open to feedback, issues and pull requests. If this seems useful to you, please give it a try. Thanks!