DB-Less Kong setup on Amazon Linux

1

I have installed Latest 2.6.x Kong Gateway OSS and db-less mode instructions as per documentation

use the Using decK (YAML) instructions … all good so far but when I run :

deck sync … I am getting this :

deck sync

updating service example_service {
“connect_timeout”: 60000,
“host”: “mockbin.org”,
“id”: “5f2be09e-de92-5059-859b-a01b35cf0d4a”,
“name”: “example_service”,
“port”: 80,
“protocol”: “http”,
“read_timeout”: 60000,

  • “retries”: 5,
    “write_timeout”: 60000
    }

Summary:
Created: 0
Updated: 0
Deleted: 0
Error: 1 errors occurred:
while processing event: {Update} service example_service failed: HTTP status 405 (message: “cannot create or update ‘services’ entities when not using a database”)

Any thoughts - what am I missing for db-less ? why we do even have deck sync if we cannot create or update ‘services’ entities when not using a database" ?

2

You can’t use deck with Kong deployed in dbless mode.

deck uses Admin API to create Kong entities. Admin API is read only in dbless mode.

3

Thanks for the quick response. What other options we have for OSS with db-less mode ?

4

Not too sure if you are using docker or not. As you mentioned OS name, I assume you are installing the RPM package, is that right?

If that’s the case you can specify your declarative config file with this setting.

5

That’s correct.

So every time I update the kong.yml, Do I have to restart the kong ?

6

You have two methods of loading the file

  1. Use KONG_DECLARATIVE_CONFIG. When you make a change on the config file, kong reload or restart is needed.
  2. Use /config endpoint

Please check below doc for details