Running Multiple Dev Portals with Workspaces

Kong supports running multiple instances of the Dev Portal with the use of Workspaces. This allows each Workspace to enable and maintain separate Dev Portals (complete with separate files, settings, and authorization) from within a single instance of Kong.

Manage Multiple Dev Portals within Kong Manager

A snapshot of every Dev Portal within an instance of Kong can be viewed via the Kong Manager’s Dev Portals top navigation tab.

This page details:

  • Whether a Dev Portal in a given Workspace is enabled or disabled
  • A link to set up the Dev Portal if it is not enabled
  • A link to each Dev Portal’s homepage
  • A link to each Dev Portal’s individual overview page within Kong Manager
  • Whether or not each Dev Portal is authenticated (indicated by a lock icon in the upper right corner of each card)

Enable a Workspace’s Dev Portal

As with the default Workspace, when an additional Workspace is created, its associated Dev Portal is disabled until it’s manually enabled.

This can be done from the Kong Manager by clicking the Set up Dev Portal button located on the Dev Portals Overview page, or by navigating directly to a Workspace’s Dev Portal Settings page via the sidebar and toggling the Dev Portal Switch, or by sending the following cURL request:

  1. curl -X PATCH http://localhost:8001/workspaces/<WORKSPACE_NAME> \
  2.  --data "config.portal=true"

On initialization, Kong will populate the new Dev Portal with the Default Settings defined in Kong’s configuration file.

Note A Workspace can only enable a Dev Portal if the Dev Portal feature has been enabled in Kong’s configuration.

Define the Dev Portal’s URL structure

The URL of each Dev Portal is automatically configured on initialization and is determined by four properties:

  1. The portal_gui_protocol property
  2. The portal_gui_host property
  3. Whether the portal_gui_use_subdomains property is enabled or disabled
  4. The name of the Workspace

Example URL with subdomains disabled: http://localhost:8003/example-workspace

Example URL with subdomains enabled: http://example-workspace.localhost:8003

The first three properties are controlled by Kong’s configuration file and cannot be edited via the Kong Manager.

Override Default Settings

On initialization, the Dev Portal will be configured using the Default Portal Settings defined in Kong’s configuration file.

Note: You can only enable a Dev Portal for a Workspace if the Dev Portal feature has been enabled for Kong Gateway.

These settings can be manually overridden in the Dev Portals Settings tab in the Kong Manager or by patching the setting directly.

Workspace Files

On initialization of a Workspace’s Dev Portal, a copy of the default Dev Portal files will be made and inserted into the new Dev Portal. This allows for the easy transference of a customized Dev Portal theme and allows default to act as a ‘master template’ – however, the Dev Portal will not continue to sync changes from the default Dev Portal after it is first enabled.

Developer Access

Access is not synced between Dev Portals. If an Admin or Developer wants access to multiple Dev Portals, they must sign up for each Dev Portal individually.