Services and Routes

This tutorial walks you through creating services and routes in Kong Manager.

If you prefer to use the Admin API, check out the Kong Gateway getting started guide.

Prerequisites

You need a Kong Gateway instance with Kong Manager enabled.

Add a service

In this tutorial, you’ll create a service pointing to the Mockbin API. Mockbin is an “echo” type public website that returns requests back to the requester as responses.

On the Workspaces tab in Kong Manager:

  1. Open the default workspace.

    This example uses the default workspace, but you can also create a new workspace, or use an existing workspace.

  2. From the Services section, click New Service.

  3. In the Create service dialog, enter the name example_service and the URL http://mockbin.org.

  4. Click Create.

The service is created, and the page automatically redirects back to the example_service overview page.

Add a route

For the service to be accessible through the API gateway, you need to add a route to it.

  1. From the example_service overview page, open Routes from the sub-menu and click New Route.

  2. On the Create route page, the Service field is auto-populated with the service name and ID number. This field is required.

    If the Service field is not automatically populated, click Services in the left navigation pane. Find your service, click the clipboard icon next to the ID field, then go back to the Create Route page and paste it into the Service field.

  3. Enter a name for the route, and at least one of the following fields: Host, Methods, or Paths. For this example, use the following:

    1. For Name, enter mocking.
    2. For Path(s), click Add Path and enter /mock.
  4. Click Create.

Kong automatically redirects you to the example_service overview page. The new route appears under the Routes section.

Verify the route is forwarding requests to the service

By default, Kong Gateway handles proxy requests on port 8000.

From a web browser, navigate to http://localhost:8000/mock/request.

Next steps

Next, you can learn about enforcing rate limiting on a service through Kong Manager.