Preparing PingAuthorize for Kong Gateway integration - PingAuthorize

Page created: 15 Jul 2022 |

Page updated: 29 Jul 2022

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Product PingAuthorize 9.1 Content Type Product documentation Administration User task

For Kong Gateway to use PingAuthorize as an external authorization policy runtime service, you must prepare PingAuthorize to receive authorization requests from Kong Gateway.

Install and start Kong Gateway. For more information, see the Kong Gateway documentation.
Install and start PingAuthorize. For more information, see Installing PingAuthorize.

In the PingAuthorize admin console, go to Configuration > HTTP Servlet Extensions > Sideband API.
In the Request Context Method list, select State.
In the Shared Secret Header Name field, modify the value to CLIENT-TOKEN.
Next to the Selected table for Shared Secrets, click the + icon to create a new shared secret.
In the modal dialog, create a suitably long shared secret value and click Save To PingAuthorize Server Cluster.
At the top of the Edit Sideband API HTTP Servlet Extension page, click Save.