Disabling Consumer

Questions
1

Can I disable kong consumer?

2

I do not believe there is a disable. There is a delete though for permanent wipe out. I could see a disable feature being useful though to help quickly revoke a users access to all his Kong resources temporarily :slight_smile: !

3

May not be exactly what you’re looking for, but the request-termination plugin added to a consumer will prevent any calls to the upstream service as that consumer. It can terminate the request with a 401, which is what would happen with an authentication plugin if the consumer didn’t exist (and the anonymous field is left unset)

curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/plugins \
    -d "name=request-termination" \
    -d "consumer_id=${CONSUMER_ID}"  \
    -d "config.status_code=401" \
    -d "config.message=Unauthorized"

Docs: https://docs.konghq.com/hub/kong-inc/request-termination/

The plugin has a low priority, so it will run after most plugins.

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4

You will need ACL plugin to achieve disable consumers. ACL plugin allows to group consumer based on their accesses. You can whitelist groups on some services and blacklist on other.

5

Thank you for your answers. I marked jeremyjpj0916’s post to answer. Yes, @code2design and @alexashley your solutinons may solve but I expected more fluent solution but I doesn’t see any box in solution.

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