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Nginx Directives
Injecting individual Nginx directives
Entries in kong.conf
that are prefixed with nginx_http_
,
nginx_proxy_
or nginx_admin_
are converted to Nginx
directives.
-
Entries prefixed with
nginx_http_
will be injected into the overallhttp
block directive. -
Entries prefixed with
nginx_proxy_
will be injected into theserver
block directive handling Kong Gateway’s proxy ports. -
Entries prefixed with
nginx_admin_
will be injected into theserver
block directive handling Kong Gateway’s Admin API ports.
See the NGINX Injected Directives section for all supported namespaces.
For example, if you add the following line to your kong.conf
file:
nginx_proxy_large_client_header_buffers=16 128k
It adds the following directive to the proxy server
block of Kong Gateway’s
Nginx configuration:
large_client_header_buffers 16 128k;
These directives can also be specified using environment variables. For example, if you declare an environment variable like this:
export KONG_NGINX_HTTP_OUTPUT_BUFFERS="4 64k"
This results in the following Nginx directive being added to the http
block:
output_buffers 4 64k;
For more details on the Nginx configuration file structure and block directives, see the Nginx reference.
For a list of Nginx directives, see the Nginx directives index.
Including files via injected Nginx directives
Complex configurations may require adding new server
blocks to an Nginx configuration.
You can inject include
directives into an Nginx configuration that point to Nginx settings files.
For example, if you create a file called my-server.kong.conf
with
the following contents:
# custom server
server {
listen 2112;
location / {
# ...more settings...
return 200;
}
}
You can make the Kong Gateway node serve this port by adding the following
entry to your kong.conf
file:
nginx_http_include = /path/to/your/my-server.kong.conf
You can also use environment variables:
export KONG_NGINX_HTTP_INCLUDE="/path/to/your/my-server.kong.conf"
When you start Kong Gateway, the server
section from that file will be added to
that file, meaning that the custom server defined in it will be responding,
alongside the regular Kong Gateway ports:
curl -I http://127.0.0.1:2112
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
If you use a relative path in an nginx_http_include
property, that
path will be interpreted relative to the value of the prefix
property of
your kong.conf
file (or the value of the -p
flag of kong start
if you
used it to override the prefix when starting Kong Gateway).
Custom Nginx templates and embedding Kong Gateway
You can use custom Nginx configuration templates directly in two cases:
-
You need to modify Kong Gateway’s default Nginx configuration. Specifically values that are not adjustable in
kong.conf
, you can modify the template used by Kong Gateway for producing its Nginx configuration and launch Kong Gateway using your customized template. -
You need to embed Kong Gateway in an already running OpenResty instance, you can reuse Kong Gateway’s generated configuration and include it in your existing configuration.
Custom Nginx templates
Kong Gateway can be started, reloaded and restarted with an --nginx-conf
argument,
which must specify an Nginx configuration template. Such a template uses the
Penlight templating engine, which is compiled using
the Kong Gateway configuration.
The following Lua functions are available in the templating engine:
-
pairs
,ipairs
tostring
os.getenv
The default template for
Kong Gateway can be found using this command on the system
running your Kong Gateway instance:
find / -type d -name "templates" | grep kong
.
For open-source Kong Gateway, you can also see the
templates directory.
The template is split in two
Nginx configuration files: nginx.lua
and nginx_kong.lua
. The former is
minimal and includes the latter, which contains everything Kong Gateway requires
to run. When kong start
runs, right before starting Nginx, it copies these
two files into the prefix directory, which looks like so:
/usr/local/kong
├── nginx-kong.conf
└── nginx.conf
If you must tweak global settings that are defined by Kong Gateway but not adjustable
via the Kong Gateway configuration in kong.conf
, you can inline the contents of the
nginx_kong.lua
configuration template into a custom template file (in this
example called custom_nginx.template
) like this:
# ---------------------
# custom_nginx.template
# ---------------------
worker_processes ${{NGINX_WORKER_PROCESSES}}; # can be set by kong.conf
daemon ${{NGINX_DAEMON}}; # can be set by kong.conf
pid pids/nginx.pid; # this setting is mandatory
error_log logs/error.log ${{LOG_LEVEL}}; # can be set by kong.conf
events {
use epoll; # a custom setting
multi_accept on;
}
http {
# contents of the nginx_kong.lua template follow:
resolver ${{DNS_RESOLVER}} ipv6=off;
charset UTF-8;
error_log logs/error.log ${{LOG_LEVEL}};
access_log logs/access.log;
... # etc
}
You can then start Kong Gateway with:
kong start -c kong.conf --nginx-conf custom_nginx.template