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Event Gateway Backend Clusters

Create Backend Cluster

Creates a new backend cluster.

post/v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/backend-clusters

Request body

namestring required

The unique name of the backend cluster.

descriptionstring

A human-readable description of the backend cluster.

insecure_allow_anonymous_virtual_cluster_authboolean

If true, virtual clusters can have allow anonymous authentication and use this backend cluster. This setting is not recommended for production use as it may create privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

bootstrap_serversstring[] required

A list of cluster bootstrap servers in the format address:port.

metadata_update_interval_secondsinteger

The interval at which metadata is updated in seconds.

labelsLabels

Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types.

Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".

Example request

{
  "authentication": {
    "password": "${vault.env['MY_ENV_VAR']}"
  },
  "tls": {
    "client_identity": {
      "key": "${vault.env['MY_ENV_VAR']}"
    }
  },
  "labels": {
    "env": "test"
  }
}

Response

Created

idstring uuid required

The unique identifier of the backend cluster.

namestring required

The unique name of the backend cluster.

descriptionstring

A human-readable description of the backend cluster.

insecure_allow_anonymous_virtual_cluster_authboolean

If true, virtual clusters can have allow anonymous authentication and use this backend cluster. This setting is not recommended for production use as it may create privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

bootstrap_serversstring[] required

A list of cluster bootstrap servers in the format address:port.

metadata_update_interval_secondsinteger

The interval at which metadata is updated in seconds.

labelsLabels

Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types.

Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".

created_atstring date-time required

An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity creation date.

updated_atstring date-time required

An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity update date.

Example response

{
  "authentication": {
    "password": "${vault.env['MY_ENV_VAR']}"
  },
  "tls": {
    "client_identity": {
      "key": "${vault.env['MY_ENV_VAR']}"
    }
  },
  "labels": {
    "env": "test"
  },
  "created_at": "2022-11-04T20:10:06.927Z",
  "updated_at": "2022-11-04T20:10:06.927Z"
}