Preparing PingAuthorize for Kong Gateway integration - PingAuthorize - 9.1

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

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