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Customize Kong by injecting plugins and templates

This dockerfile takes an existing Kong image and adds custom plugins and/or a custom template file to it.

docker build \
   --build-arg KONG_BASE="kong:0.14.1-ubuntu" \
   --build-arg PLUGINS="kong-http-to-https,kong-upstream-jwt" \
   --build-arg TEMPLATE="/mykong/nginx.conf" \
   --build-arg "KONG_LICENSE_DATA=$KONG_LICENSE_DATA" \
   --tag "your_new_image" .

The above command will take the kong:0.14.1-alpine image and add the plugins (as known on luarocks.org) kong-http-to-https and kong-upstream-jwt to it. Also the custom template (for rendering the underlying nginx configuration file ), located at /mykong/nginx.conf will be injected. The resulting new image will be tagged as your_new_image.

When starting a container from the newly created image, the added plugins and template will automatically be applied. So there is no need to specify the environment variable KONG_PLUGINS nor the --nginx-conf command line switch to enable them.

Checking the available plugins

To check the plugins available in an image, use the example list_plugins.sh script.

Curated list of plugins

This tool is based on the LuaRocks packagemanager to include all plugin dependencies. The ROCKS_DIR variable allows you to only use a curated list of rocks to be used (instead of the public ones).

It will generate a local LuaRocks server, and not allow any public ones to be used. For an example of how to use it see the example.sh script.

Arguments:

  • KONG_BASE the base image to use, defaults to kong:latest.
  • PLUGINS a comma-separated list of the plugin names (NOT rock files!) that you wish to add to the image. All dependencies will also be installed.
  • ROCKS_DIR a local directory where the allowed plugins/rocks are located. If specified, only rocks from this location will be allowed to be installed. If not specified, then the public luarocks.org server is used.
  • TEMPLATE the custom configuration template to use
  • KONG_LICENSE_DATA this is required when the base image is an Enterprise version of Kong.

Note that the PLUGINS entries are simply LuaRocks commands used as: luarocks install <entry>. So anything that LuaRocks accepts can be added there, including commandline options. For example:

--build-arg PLUGINS="luassert --deps-mode=none"

Will add the luassert module, without resolving dependencies (this is useless, but demonstrates how it works).

Limitations

  • Only works for pure-Lua modules for now.