Kong comes with a command-line tool for changing the behavior of Kong. It has a set of commands to start, stop, and modify Kong. Kong by default uses a configuration file. If we need to modify it, we need to restart Kong for those changes to be applied. So, all these housekeeping jobs are already wired into the Kong CLI tool. The basic functions are:
- kong start: For starting the Kong server
- kong reload: For reloading the Kong server
- kong stop: For stopping the Kong server
- kong check: For validating the given Kong configuration file
- kong health: For checking necessary services, such as the database, are running
Please go through the documentation of Kong CLI for more commands at https://getkong.org/docs/0.9.x/cli/.
