Install Kong Data Plane Node (Kong Gateway) on Azure VM (Ubuntu) - Self-Managed Hybrid

Posted Feb 26, 2025 Updated Feb 27, 2025

By Aditya Singh

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Hello Tech Enthusiasts 👋,

Continuing my journey of learning Kong Konnect, today I’ll walk you through installing a Kong Gateway node (Data Plane) on an Azure VM (Ubuntu).

If you’re new to Kong, I recommend checking out my previous article before proceeding Getting Started with Kong API Management.

Prerequisites

Azure account with appropriate permission to create VM
Knowledge on basic cloud components
Sign-up and access to Kong Konnect

Created Azure VM (Ubuntu)

To try out, I’ve created Ubuntu VM in Azure.

Login to Azure and navigate to Virtual Machine
Create VM as below screenshot

Azure Ubuntu VM Setup

Update network configuration as below (to access https/http port)

Azure VM Port Rules

Configure Dataplane node on Azure VM

Login to Konnect portal and navigate to Gateway Manager
Create New Gateway as ‘On-Prem’
Once created, select On-Prem and then navigate to Data Plane Nodes
Click New Data Plane Node.
Select Gateway Version as the latest , platform as Linux.
Access the VM through putty using the remote username and password configured during VM setup.

Use public key when setting up this for enterprise, I’m using password just for demo purpose

Sudo to root access and follow the link https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/3.9.x/install/linux/ubuntu/.

Kong installation on Ubuntu

Navigate back to Konnect portal and click ‘Generate certificate’. Follow the steps as in it

Konnect Data Plane Node Instructions

After the execution of command kong restart, you should see ‘Data Plane Node has been found’ and then click done.

Create Gateway Service to test

To create proxy service, navigate to Gateway Manager > Serverless > Gateway Service, and then click ‘+ New gateway service’ and follow the screenshot below. I’m using https://httpbin.org/anything as the backend proxy call.