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See the <a href="/gateway/latest/plugin-development/distribution/">latest documentation here</a>. </blockquote> <h1 tabindex="-1" id="main" class="page-content-title">Installation and Distribution </h1> <p>Custom plugins for Kong consist of Lua source files that need to be in the file system of each of your Kong nodes. This guide will provide you with step-by-step instructions that will make a Kong node aware of your custom plugin(s).</p> <p>These steps should be applied to each node in your Kong cluster, to ensure the custom plugin(s) are available on each one of them.</p> <h2 id="packaging-sources">Packaging sources</h2> <p>You can either use a regular packing strategy (e.g. <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">tar</code>), or use the LuaRocks package manager to do it for you. We recommend LuaRocks as it is installed along with Kong when using one of the official distribution packages.</p> <p>When using LuaRocks, you must create a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">rockspec</code> file, which specifies the package contents. For an example, see the <a href="https://github.com/Kong/kong-plugin" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">Kong plugin template</a>. For more info about the format, see the LuaRocks <a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/wiki/Creating-a-rock" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">documentation on rockspecs</a>.</p> <p>Pack your rock using the following command (from the plugin repo):</p> <ol> <li>Install it locally (based on the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.rockspec</code> in the current directory): <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> luarocks make </code></pre></div> </div> </li> <li> <p>Pack the installed rock:</p> <blockquote class="important"> <p><strong>Important:</strong> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">luarocks pack</code> is dependent on the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">zip</code> utility being installed. More recent images of Kong Gateway have been hardened, and utilities such as <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">zip</code> are no longer available. If this is being performed as part of a custom Docker image, ensure <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">zip</code> is installed prior to running this command.</p> </blockquote> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> luarocks pack <plugin-name> <version> </code></pre></div> </div> <p>Assuming your plugin rockspec is called <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">kong-plugin-my-plugin-0.1.0-1.rockspec</code>, the above would become;</p> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> luarocks pack kong-plugin-my-plugin 0.1.0-1 </code></pre></div> </div> </li> </ol> <p>The LuaRocks <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">pack</code> command has now created a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.rock</code> file (this is simply a zip file containing everything needed to install the rock).</p> <p>If you do not or cannot use LuaRocks, then use <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">tar</code> to pack the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.lua</code> files of which your plugin consists into a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.tar.gz</code> archive. You can also include the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.rockspec</code> file if you do have LuaRocks on the target systems.</p> <p>The contents of this archive should be close to the following:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>tree <plugin-name> <plugin-name> ├── INSTALL.txt ├── README.md ├── kong │ └── plugins │ └── <plugin-name> │ ├── handler.lua │ └── schema.lua └── <plugin-name>-<version>.rockspec </code></pre></div></div> <h2 id="install-the-plugin">Install the plugin</h2> <p>For a Kong node to be able to use the custom plugin, the custom plugin’s Lua sources must be installed on your host’s file system. There are multiple ways of doing so: via LuaRocks, or manually. Choose one of the following paths.</p> <p>Reminder: regardless of which method you are using to install your plugin’s sources, you must still do so for each node in your Kong cluster.</p> <h3 id="via-luarocks-from-the-created-rock">Via LuaRocks from the created ‘rock’</h3> <p>The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.rock</code> file is a self contained package that can be installed locally or from a remote server.</p> <p>If the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">luarocks</code> utility is installed in your system (this is likely the case if you used one of the official installation packages), you can install the ‘rock’ in your LuaRocks tree (a directory in which LuaRocks installs Lua modules).</p> <p>It can be installed by doing:</p> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>luarocks <span class="nb">install</span> <rock-filename> </code></pre></div></div> <p>The filename can be a local name, or any of the supported methods, e.g. <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">http://myrepository.lan/rocks/my-plugin-0.1.0-1.all.rock</code></p> <h3 id="via-luarocks-from-the-source-archive">Via LuaRocks from the source archive</h3> <p>If the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">luarocks</code> utility is installed in your system (this is likely the case if you used one of the official installation packages), you can install the Lua sources in your LuaRocks tree (a directory in which LuaRocks installs Lua modules).</p> <p>You can do so by changing the current directory to the extracted archive, where the rockspec file is:</p> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nb">cd</span> <plugin-name> </code></pre></div></div> <p>And then run the following:</p> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>luarocks make </code></pre></div></div> <p>This will install the Lua sources in <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">kong/plugins/<plugin-name></code> in your system’s LuaRocks tree, where all the Kong sources are already present.</p> <h3 id="via-a-dockerfile-or-docker-run-install-and-load">Via a Dockerfile or docker run (install and load)</h3> <p>If you are running Kong Gateway on Docker or Kubernetes, the plugin needs to be installed inside the Kong Gateway container. Copy or mount the plugin’s source code into the container.</p> <blockquote class="note"> <p><strong>Note:</strong> Official Kong Gateway images are configured to run as the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">nobody</code> user. When building a custom image, to copy files into the Kong Gateway image, you must temporarily set the user to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">root</code>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Here’s an example Dockerfile that shows how to mount your plugin in the Kong Gateway image:</p> <div class="language-dockerfile highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="k">FROM</span><span class="s"> kong/kong-gateway:latest</span> <span class="c"># Ensure any patching steps are executed as root user</span> <span class="k">USER</span><span class="s"> root</span> <span class="c"># Add custom plugin to the image</span> <span class="k">COPY</span><span class="s"> example-plugin/kong/plugins/example-plugin /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/example-plugin</span> <span class="k">ENV</span><span class="s"> KONG_PLUGINS=bundled,example-plugin</span> <span class="c"># Ensure kong user is selected for image execution</span> <span class="k">USER</span><span class="s"> kong</span> <span class="c"># Run kong</span> <span class="k">ENTRYPOINT</span><span class="s"> ["/entrypoint.sh"]</span> <span class="k">EXPOSE</span><span class="s"> 8000 8443 8001 8444</span> <span class="k">STOPSIGNAL</span><span class="s"> SIGQUIT</span> <span class="k">HEALTHCHECK</span><span class="s"> --interval=10s --timeout=10s --retries=10 CMD kong health</span> <span class="k">CMD</span><span class="s"> ["kong", "docker-start"]</span> </code></pre></div></div> <p>Or, include the following in your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">docker run</code> command:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>-v "$custom_plugin_folder:/tmp/custom_plugins/kong" -e "KONG_LUA_PACKAGE_PATH=/tmp/custom_plugins/?.lua;;" -e "KONG_PLUGINS=bundled,example-plugin" </code></pre></div></div> <h3 id="manually">Manually</h3> <p>A more conservative way of installing your plugin’s sources is to avoid “polluting” the LuaRocks tree, and instead, point Kong to the directory containing them.</p> <p>This is done by tweaking the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lua_package_path</code> property of your Kong configuration. Under the hood, this property is an alias to the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LUA_PATH</code> variable of the Lua VM, if you are familiar with it.</p> <p>Those properties contain a semicolon-separated list of directories in which to search for Lua sources. It should be set like so in your Kong configuration file:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>lua_package_path = /<path-to-plugin-location>/?.lua;; </code></pre></div></div> <p>Where:</p> <ul> <li> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">/<path-to-plugin-location></code> is the path to the directory containing the extracted archive. It should be the location of the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">kong</code> directory from the archive.</li> <li> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">?</code> is a placeholder that will be replaced by <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">kong.plugins.<plugin-name></code> when Kong will try to load your plugin. Do not change it.</li> <li> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">;;</code> a placeholder for the “the default Lua path”. Do not change it.</li> </ul> <p>For example, if the plugin <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">something</code> is located on the file system and the handler file is in the following directory:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>/usr/local/custom/kong/plugins/<something>/handler.lua </code></pre></div></div> <p>The location of the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">kong</code> directory is <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">/usr/local/custom</code>, so the proper path setup would be:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>lua_package_path = /usr/local/custom/?.lua;; </code></pre></div></div> <h4 id="multiple-plugins">Multiple plugins</h4> <p>If you want to install two or more custom plugins this way, you can set the variable to something like:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>lua_package_path = /path/to/plugin1/?.lua;/path/to/plugin2/?.lua;; </code></pre></div></div> <ul> <li> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">;</code> is the separator between directories.</li> <li> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">;;</code> still means “the default Lua path”.</li> </ul> <p>You can also set this property via its environment variable equivalent: <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">KONG_LUA_PACKAGE_PATH</code>.</p> <h2 id="load-the-plugin">Load the plugin</h2> <ol> <li> <p>Add the custom plugin’s name to the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> list in your Kong configuration (on each Kong node):</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> plugins = bundled,<plugin-name> </code></pre></div> </div> <p>Or, if you don’t want to include the bundled plugins:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> plugins = <plugin-name> </code></pre></div> </div> <p>If you are using two or more custom plugins, insert commas in between, like so:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> plugins = bundled,plugin1,plugin2 </code></pre></div> </div> <p>Or:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> plugins = plugin1,plugin2 </code></pre></div> </div> <p>You can also set this property via its environment variable equivalent: <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">KONG_PLUGINS</code>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Update the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> directive for each node in your Kong cluster.</p> </li> <li> <p>Restart Kong to apply the plugin:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> kong restart </code></pre></div> </div> <p>Or, if you want to apply a plugin without stopping Kong, you can use this:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> kong prepare kong reload </code></pre></div> </div> </li> </ol> <h2 id="verify-loading-the-plugin">Verify loading the plugin</h2> <p>You should now be able to start Kong without any issue. Consult your custom plugin’s instructions on how to enable/configure your plugin on a Service, Route, or Consumer entity.</p> <ol> <li> <p>To make sure your plugin is being loaded by Kong, you can start Kong with a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">debug</code> log level:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> log_level = debug </code></pre></div> </div> <p>or:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> KONG_LOG_LEVEL=debug </code></pre></div> </div> </li> <li> <p>Then, you should see the following log for each plugin being loaded:</p> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> [debug] Loading plugin <plugin-name> </code></pre></div> </div> </li> </ol> <h2 id="remove-a-plugin">Remove a plugin</h2> <p>There are three steps to completely remove a plugin.</p> <ol> <li> <p>Remove the plugin from your Kong Service or Route configuration. Make sure that it is no longer applied globally nor for any Service, Route, or consumer. This has to be done only once for the entire Kong cluster, no restart/reload required. This step in itself will make that the plugin is no longer in use. But it remains available and it is still possible to re-apply the plugin.</p> </li> <li> <p>Remove the plugin from the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> directive (on each Kong node). Make sure to have completed step 1 before doing so. After this step it will be impossible for anyone to re-apply the plugin to any Kong Service, Route, Consumer, or even globally. This step requires to restart/reload the Kong node to take effect.</p> </li> <li> <p>To remove the plugin thoroughly, delete the plugin-related files from each of the Kong nodes. Make sure to have completed step 2, including restarting/reloading Kong, before deleting the files. If you used LuaRocks to install the plugin, you can do <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">luarocks remove <plugin-name></code> to remove it.</p> </li> </ol> <h2 id="distribute-your-plugin">Distribute your plugin</h2> <p>Depending on the platform that Gateway is running on, there are different ways of distributing custom plugins.</p> <h3 id="luarocks">LuaRocks</h3> <p>One way to do so is to use <a href="https://luarocks.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">LuaRocks</a>, a package manager for Lua modules. It calls such modules “rocks”. <strong>Your module does not have to live inside the Kong repository</strong>, but it can be if that’s how you’d like to maintain your Kong setup.</p> <p>By defining your modules (and their eventual dependencies) in a <a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/wiki/Creating-a-rock" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">rockspec</a> file, you can install those modules on your platform via LuaRocks. You can also upload your module on LuaRocks and make it available to everyone!</p> <p>Here is an <a href="https://github.com/Kong/kong-plugin/blob/master/kong-plugin-myplugin-0.1.0-1.rockspec" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">example rockspec</a> using the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">builtin</code> build type to define modules in Lua notation and their corresponding file.</p> <p>For more information about the format, see the LuaRocks <a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/wiki/Creating-a-rock" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">documentation on rockspecs</a>.</p> <h3 id="oci-artifacts">OCI Artifacts</h3> <p>Many users will have access to an OCI-compliant registry like Docker Hub or Amazon ECR. Kong Plugins can be packaged as generic OCI artifacts and uploaded to one of these registries for versioning, storage, and distribution.</p> <p>The advantage of distributing plugins as OCI artifacts is that users can make use of a number of ecosystem benefits including tooling around building, pushing and pulling, and signing (for secure provenance attestation) of these artifacts. The steps below illustrate a sample flow for packaging, distributing, and verifying a Kong custom plugin as an OCI artifact.</p> <p>On the machine where the plugin is developed, or as part of an automated workflow, run the following steps:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Package the plugin according to the <a href="#packaging-sources">Packaging Sources</a> section above.</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> <span class="nb">tar </span>czf my-plugin.tar.gz ./my-plugin-dir </code></pre></div> </div> </li> <li> <p>Use the OSS <a href="https://docs.sigstore.dev/system_config/installation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">Cosign tool</a> to generate a key pair for use signing and verifying plugins:</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> cosign generate-key-pair </code></pre></div> </div> <p>The private key (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cosign.key</code>) should be kept secure and is used for signing the plugin artifact. The public key (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cosign.pub</code>) should be distributed and used by target machines to validate the downloaded plugin later in the flow.</p> <p>There are also key-less methods for signing and verifying artifacts with Cosign. More information is available in their <a href="https://docs.sigstore.dev/signing/overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">documentation</a>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Login to your OCI-compliant registry. In this case we’ll use Docker Hub:</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> <span class="nb">cat</span> ~/foo_password.txt | docker login <span class="nt">--username</span> foo-user <span class="nt">--password-stdin</span> </code></pre></div> </div> </li> <li> <p>Upload the plugin artifact to the OCI registry using Cosign. This is the equivalent of running <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">docker push <image></code> when pushing a local Docker image up to a registry.</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> cosign upload blob <span class="nt">-f</span> my-plugin.tar.gz docker.io/foo-user/my-plugin </code></pre></div> </div> <p>The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cosign upload</code> command will return the digest of the artifact if it’s successfully uploaded.</p> </li> <li> <p>Sign the artifact with the key pair generated in step 1:</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> cosign sign <span class="nt">--key</span> cosign.key index.docker.io/foo-user/my-plugin@sha256:xxxxxxxxxx </code></pre></div> </div> <p>The command may prompt for the private key passphrase. It also may prompt to confirm that you consent to the signing information being permanently recorded in Rekor, the transparency log. For more information on Sigstore tooling and flows visit the <a href="https://docs.sigstore.dev/logging/overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">documentation</a>.</p> </li> </ol> <p>Then, on the machines where the plugin should be installed (the Gateway data plane nodes), run the following steps (which can also be automated):</p> <ol> <li> <p>Ensure the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cosign.pub</code> public key is available. Verify the signature of the plugin artifact that you want to pull:</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> cosign verify <span class="nt">--key</span> cosign.pub index.docker.io/foo-user/my-plugin@sha256:xxxxxxxxxx </code></pre></div> </div> <p>The command should succeed if the artifact was verified.</p> </li> <li> <p>Use the OSS <a href="https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/cmd/crane" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer ">Crane</a> tool to pull the plugin artifact to the machine:</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> crane pull index.docker.io/foo-user/my-plugin@sha256:xxxxxxxxxx my-downloaded-plugin.tar.gz </code></pre></div> </div> <p>The command should pull the artifact and save it to the working directory.</p> </li> <li> <p>Unpackage the plugin. The download <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.tar.gz</code> file will container a manifest file and another nested <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.tar.gz</code>. This nested archive contains the plugin directory.</p> <div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> <span class="nb">tar </span>xvf my-downloaded-plugin.tar.gz <span class="nb">tar </span>xvf xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.tar.gz </code></pre></div> </div> </li> <li> <p>Copy the plugin directory to the correct location according to the <a href="#manually">install manually</a> section above. If you have not set a custom <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">KONG_LUA_PACKAGE_PATH</code>, copy the plugin in to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins</code>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Update Kong’s configuration to load the custom plugin by configuring <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins=bundled,my-downloaded-plugin</code> in <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">kong.conf</code> or set the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">KONG_PLUGINS</code> environment variable to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins=bundled,my-downloaded-plugin</code></p> </li> </ol> <h2 id="troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</h2> <p>Kong can fail to start because of a misconfigured custom plugin for several reasons:</p> <dl> <dt><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugin is in use but not enabled</code></dt> <dd>You configured a custom plugin from another node, and that the plugin configuration is in the database, but the current node you are trying to start does not have it in its <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> directive. To resolve, add the plugin’s name to the node’s <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> directive.</dd> <dt><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugin is enabled but not installed</code></dt> <dd>The plugin’s name is present in the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> directive, but Kong can’t load the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">handler.lua</code> source file from the file system. To resolve, make sure that the <a href="/gateway/3.3.x/reference/configuration/#development-miscellaneous-section"><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lua_package_path</code></a> directive is properly set to load this plugin’s Lua sources.</dd> <dt><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">no configuration schema found for plugin</code></dt> <dd>The plugin is installed and enabled in the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins</code> directive, but Kong is unable to load the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema.lua</code> source file from the file system. 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