# Manually adding values to Kong but after a while values are getting deleted

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/manually-adding-values-to-kong-but-after-a-while-values-are-getting-deleted/2709>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** kubernetes\
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/manually-adding-values-to-kong-but-after-a-while-values-are-getting-deleted/2709 "2019-01-30T03:34:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremyjpj0916](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/jeremyjpj0916/32/1388_2.png) [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/manually-adding-values-to-kong-but-after-a-while-values-are-getting-deleted/2709/2 "2019-01-30T07:30:03Z")

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See here : [Kong VS nginx kunernetes ingress controller](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-vs-nginx-kunernetes-ingress-controller/1985/2?u=jeremyjpj0916)

TLDR as an ingress controller, configuring via admin API doesn’t work(it will configure itself back to before the admin api call change) have to use the stored config files and update those.

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