Kong Helm Charts

This is the official Helm Charts repository for installing Kong on Kubernetes.

Setup

Add the repo on your machine:

helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com
helm repo update

Charts

• kong/ingress: An umbrella chart for Kong Gateway and Kong Ingress Controller.
• kong/kong: A flexible building block for supporting a wide variety of environment configurations.
• kong/gateway-operator: Installs Kong Gateway Operator.

kong/ingress

kong/ingress provides an opinionated ingress controller-managed DB-less environment. It is the recommended chart for new installations. To use it:

helm install kong/ingress --generate-name

kong/ingress is an umbrella chart using two instances of the kong/kong chart with some pre-configured values.yaml settings. The controller and gateway subsections support additional settings available in the kong/kong values.yaml.

kong/kong

kong/kong is a flexible building block for supporting a wide variety of environment configurations not supported by kong/ingress, such as hybrid mode or unmanaged (no controller) Kong instances.

To use it:

helm install kong/kong --generate-name

For more details about the configuration required to support various environments, see the "Deployment Options" subsection of the kong/kong documentation's table of contents.

kong/gateway-operator

kong/gateway-operator installs Kong Gateway Operator.

To use it:

helm install kong/gateway-operator --generate-name

Documentation

The documentation for Kong's Helm Charts is available on GitHub:

• kong/ingress
• kong/kong
• kong/gateway-operator

Seeking help

If you run into an issue, bug or have a question, please reach out to the Kong community via Kong Nation or open Github issues in this repository.

Releasing and forking

This repo uses chart releaser to automatically update a GitHub pages branch containing a Helm repo. When you bump the version field in Chart.yaml in one of the charts under charts/ and merge to main, GitHub Actions will trigger a release job to generate a GitHub release and add the new release to the Helm repo:

1. Make a new branch and add a release commit. This commit updates the Chart.yaml chart version, finalizes that version's changelog, and optionally adds upgrade instructions.
2. Open a PR to main and merge once approved.
3. Wait for CI to release the new version. Investigate errors if the release job fails.

Chart kong/ingress uses kong/kong as a dependency, so when changes released in kong/kong are beneficial for users of kong/ingress bump its version cd charts/ingress && helm dependency update and prepare a new release of kong/ingress as described above.

Forks of this repo can use this release functionality without (much) additional configuration. Enabling GitHub pages for the gh-pages branch will make a Helm repo with your fork's changes available on your GitHub Pages URL. You can then use this with:

helm repo add kong-fork https://myuser.github.io/charts/