Adding API to Kong

Kong provides an intuitive REST API to add a custom API to the gateway. In order to add the aformentioned healthcheck API, we need to make a POST request to the Kong admin API, which runs on port 8001. From now on we use the Postman REST client to show all API requests. These API requests are also available as a JSON file collection in the chapter's repository for readers to download and import in their Postman clients respectively. For more information on exporting and importing Postman collections, visit https://www.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collections/data_formats.

Make a POST request from Postman to the Kong admin URL http://localhost:8001/apis with these fields in the JSON body:

{
    "name": "myapi",
    "hosts": "server1",
    "upstream_url": "http://go-server:3000",
    "uris":["/api/v1"],
    "strip_uri": true,
    "preserve_host": false
}

It adds our health check API to Kong. The Postman screen looks like the following screenshot with all the changes. Postman...