# How should I deploy kong gateway in Kubernetes

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-should-i-deploy-kong-gateway-in-kubernetes/9435>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** kubernetes, kong-gateway\
**Created:** [December 2, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-should-i-deploy-kong-gateway-in-kubernetes/9435 "2021-12-02T17:14:46Z")\
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At the moment, we are using Kubernetes ingress rules to direct backend paths base on the microservice that handle the request:  
An example of the ingress is

```auto
{
   "apiVersion": "extensions/v1beta1",
   "kind": "Ingress",
   "metadata":
   {
       "name": "hello-world",
       "namespace": "$NAMESPACE",
       "annotations":
       {
           "ingress.kubernetes.io/secure-backends": "true",
           "ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol": "HTTPS",
           "ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex": "true"
       }
   },
   "spec":
   {
       "tls": [
       {
           "hosts": [
               "hello-world-$NAMESPACE-[place-holder].co.uk"
           ]
       }
   ],
   "rules": [
   {
       "host": ""hello-world-$NAMESPACE-[place-holder].co.uk",
       "http":
       {
           "paths": [
           {
               "path": "/test1/api",
               "backend":
               {
                   "serviceName": "api1-svc",
                   "servicePort": 443
               }
           },
           {
               "path": "/test1/api/history",
               "backend":
               {
                   "serviceName": "history-api-svc",
                   "servicePort": 443
               }
           }
]
 
Example 1
GET request
 {
               "path": "/test1/api/(.+)/birthday",
               "backend":
               {
                   "serviceName": "birthday-api-svc",
                   "servicePort": 443
               }
           },
 
}
 
POST request
 {
               "path": "/test1/api/(.+)/birthday",
               "backend":
               {
                   "serviceName": "person-info-api-svc",
                   "servicePort": 443
               }
           },
 
}

```

Kubernetes ingress on our given ingress controller currently has no way to redirect requests to different microservices that has the same resource path. (please see example 1)

I am looking for an Open source solution within Kong. How do I deploy kong gateway? via **kong dbless mode** or using Kubernetes Ingress Controller.

The reason I said **kong dbless mode** is because many team will be using this and we do not want to manager 100s of databases.