Kong on Nginx-Plus

[Temitope Omotunde]

Hi,

My app works with 2 apis. Each api was accessed through an NginX-Plus Server acting as a Load balancer.

All Oauth checking was done at the backend servers, not on the Load balancer. 

I am thinking of putting Kong on the Load Balancer to do all the api access authentication and rate limiting.

Does Kong work for this scenario? Can I keep the NginX - Plus Load Balancer and Kong on the same server.

[Marco]

Hi,

Kong supports rate-limiting and key or basic authentication, it does not support OAuth yet (but it's coming soon).

I would recommend running Kong and Nginx Plus on two different servers at the moment, until we make sure the two are not going to conflict.

[marinar...@gmail.com]

Hi Marco,

I just find this conversation and I already read some docs on kong website.

After almost 2 years I'm going to re-post the same question.

Is it still recommended to install kong on a separate failover cluster or can we install it on the same nginx server/cluster?

[Thibault Charbonnier]

On 3/14/17 6:40 AM, marinar...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> I just find this conversation and I already read some docs on kong
> website.
> After almost 2 years I'm going to re-post the same question.
> Is it still recommended to install kong on a separate failover cluster
> or can we install it on the same nginx server/cluster?

I'm not sure what you mean by "failover cluster" or "same nginx server".

Compared to 2 years ago, it might be worth pointing out that now, Kong
has some support for OAuth2:

https://getkong.org/plugins/oauth2-authentication/

And for load balancing as well:

https://getkong.org/docs/latest/loadbalancing/

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Thibault