Ports 8005 and 8006 Necessary for Kong Hybrid Mode?

Questions
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Hello All,
We are planning to implement Kong in hybrid mode directly on the server (without using Docker/Kubernetes). Should ports 8005 and 8006 be open to allow communication between the data plane and control plane nodes? Could you please confirm?

Thanks…
Nilesh

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@Nilesh Please see this document for details on the default ports for Kong Gateway

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Thanks for your response. While searching on the Kong site, I found several documents about port requirements. I am a bit confused about ports 8005 and 8006 because some documents say port 443 is enough for data to travel between the Data plane and the Control plane.

We did setup a hybrid mode where the Control plane is on the Kong side and the Data plane is on the client side. In this setup, we only opened port 443, and it worked successfully.

There does not seem to be a clear document on the Kong website that provides exact instructions on which ports need to be open for each Kong installation mode.

Here are the reference documents for ports 443, 8005, and 8006, which confused me about which ones need to be open.