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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Kong Gateway, the open source API gateway, preinstalled and ready to use with the PostgreSQL backend and an example route with key authentication generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview Kong Gateway is the leading open source API gateway and microservice management layer, providing routing, authentication, rate limiting, traffic control and observability for modern application backends. This image delivers Kong Gateway fully installed and configured, backed by PostgreSQL, so a complete API gateway is running within minutes of launch with no package management, database setup or migration work required.
Gateway Stack Kong Gateway running as a systemd service in single node mode, persisting its configuration in a local PostgreSQL 16 database. The proxy listens on port 8000 for HTTP traffic and 8443 for HTTPS. A small nginx instance on port 80 forwards traffic to the Kong proxy so the gateway is reachable from a browser or curl without specifying a port. The Admin API is bound to the loopback interface and is reachable over an SSH tunnel.
Secure First Boot On the first boot of your instance a one shot service generates a fresh PostgreSQL password for the Kong role, runs the Kong database migrations and wires an example service, route and key authentication plugin. A per instance API key is generated for a sample consumer named cloudimg, and the plain text values are stored in a file readable only by root. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.
Dedicated Storage Tier The PostgreSQL data directory lives on a separate, independently resizable storage volume mounted at the database root. The database tier is kept off the operating system disk so it can be grown without disturbing the rest of the instance.
Ready To Use Kong, PostgreSQL and nginx are all enabled and configured. Connect over SSH to inspect the credentials file, then send a request to the example route with the consumer's API key to confirm the gateway is forwarding and authenticating traffic.
cloudimg Support 24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with Kong deployment, route and plugin configuration, upstream wiring, rate limiting, observability and gateway upgrades.
Use Cases API gateway and reverse proxy in front of microservices. Authentication and rate limiting layer for public APIs. Service mesh ingress and traffic shaping. Plugin based request and response transformation. Multi tenant API hosting.
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Highlights
- Kong Gateway preinstalled and ready, backed by PostgreSQL and fronted by nginx on port 80, with an example service, route and key authentication plugin wired up on first boot
- Hardened first boot generates a fresh database password and consumer API key for every instance and stores them in a file only the root user can read
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg, with expert assistance for Kong deployment, route configuration, plugin setup and gateway upgrades
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
r5a.xlarge | r5a.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
r8i.16xlarge | r8i.16xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r6id.12xlarge | r6id.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m5n.8xlarge | m5n.8xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m7i.12xlarge | m7i.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r5ad.8xlarge | r5ad.8xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
t2.xlarge | t2.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Initial release of Kong Gateway 3 API gateway on AWS.
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Usage instructions
Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant). Kong, PostgreSQL and nginx are already running. On first boot the kong-firstboot service writes per instance credentials to /root/kong-credentials.txt (mode 0600). Run 'sudo cat /root/kong-credentials.txt' to view the PostgreSQL password and the consumer API key. The Admin API is bound to 127.0.0.1:8001 (no authentication is the Kong CE default); reach it over an SSH tunnel. The proxy is on port 8000 directly and via nginx on port 80. Test the example route: curl -H "apikey: <KEY>" http://<host>/example
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cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this product by email and live chat. Our engineers help with deployment, configuration, updates, performance tuning and troubleshooting; critical issues receive a one hour average response. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk .
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