Kong.yml using DB-less mode and Ingress Controller

Installation/Setup
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Hello!

I’m setting up a installation of Kong Gateway in my test environment using an Ingress Controller and db-less mode.
According to the values.yaml documentation, if I use db-less mode and not an Ingress controller I cannot set the kong.yml on the dblessConfig.

My question is where do I need to configure to start my application with my kong.yml that I have?

Thank you!
Andre

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If you would like to use Kong in DB-less mode without the ingress controller, then you can specify the content of kong.yml (your configuration) under dblessConfig property. There are two ways to do it, either use a config map or simply specify the configuration inline under the config` key.

Hope this helps.

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Hi @hbagdi! Thanks for the answer!

According to what you explained:

If you would like to use Kong in DB-less mode without the ingress controller…

My point is: Is there a way to configure Kong DB-less mode with the ingress controller?

Thank you!
Andre

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@hbagdi using this configuration I got it to do my tests!

Thank you for the help!
Andre

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Not via the chart. You can use the Admin API directly to add in some configuration, although that is discouraged.

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I am trying to setup kong as a gateway (in db-less mode) and put an ingress resource (through kong-ingress-controller) in front of it to expose our microservice apis to the external world.

Following this video I understand that kong-ingress-controller v2.9 has the capability to do gateway discovery. Repo link

My question is - After configuring two helm deployments (one for gateway and another for kic) how do we configure the kubernetes ingress resource to point to the gateway?

Thanks.