Quick Start with Helm Chart and MongoDB

The following guides provide instructions to install Redis, MongoDB, and Tyk stack with default configurations. It is intended for quick start only. For production, you should install and configure Redis and MongoDB separately.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.19+
• Helm 3+

Quick Start with MongoDB

The following quick start guide explains how to use the Tyk Stack Helm chart to configure a Dashboard that includes:

• Redis for key storage
• MongoDB for app config
• Tyk Pump to send analytics to MongoDB. It also opens a metrics endpoint where Prometheus (if available) can scrape from.

At the end of this quickstart Tyk Dashboard should be accessible through service dashboard-svc-tyk-tyk-dashboard at port 3000. You can login to Dashboard using the admin email and password to start managing APIs. Tyk Gateway will be accessible through service gateway-svc-tyk-tyk-gateway.tyk.svc at port 8080.

1. Setup required credentials

First, you need to provide Tyk license, admin email and password, and API keys. We recommend to store them in secrets.

NAMESPACE=tyk
REDIS_BITNAMI_CHART_VERSION=19.0.2
MONGO_BITNAMI_CHART_VERSION=15.1.2

API_SECRET=changeit
ADMIN_KEY=changeit
TYK_LICENSE=changeit
ADMIN_EMAIL=[email protected]
ADMIN_PASSWORD=changeit

kubectl create namespace $NAMESPACE

kubectl create secret generic my-secrets -n $NAMESPACE \
    --from-literal=APISecret=$API_SECRET \
    --from-literal=AdminSecret=$ADMIN_KEY \
    --from-literal=DashLicense=$TYK_LICENSE

kubectl create secret generic admin-secrets -n $NAMESPACE \
    --from-literal=adminUserFirstName=Admin \
    --from-literal=adminUserLastName=User \
    --from-literal=adminUserEmail=$ADMIN_EMAIL \
    --from-literal=adminUserPassword=$ADMIN_PASSWORD

2. Install Redis (if you don’t have a Redis instance)

If you do not already have Redis installed, you may use these charts provided by Bitnami.

helm upgrade tyk-redis oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/redis -n $NAMESPACE --install --version $REDIS_BITNAMI_CHART_VERSION

Follow the notes from the installation output to get connection details and password. The DNS name of your Redis as set by Bitnami is tyk-redis-master.tyk.svc:6379 (Tyk needs the name including the port)

The Bitnami chart also creates a secret tyk-redis which stores the connection password in redis-password. We will make use of this secret in installation later.

3. Install MongoDB (if you don’t have a MongoDB instance)

If you do not already have MongoDB installed, you may use these charts provided by Bitnami.

helm upgrade tyk-mongo oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/mongodb -n $NAMESPACE --install --version $MONGO_BITNAMI_CHART_VERSION

We require the MongoDB connection string for Tyk installation. You can store it in a secret and provide the secret in installation later.

MONGOURL=mongodb://root:$(kubectl get secret --namespace $NAMESPACE tyk-mongo-mongodb -o jsonpath="{.data.mongodb-root-password}" | base64 -d)@tyk-mongo-mongodb.$NAMESPACE.svc:27017/tyk_analytics?authSource=admin

kubectl create secret generic mongourl-secrets --from-literal=mongoUrl=$MONGOURL -n $NAMESPACE

4. Install Tyk

helm repo add tyk-helm https://helm.tyk.io/public/helm/charts/

helm repo update

helm upgrade tyk tyk-helm/tyk-stack -n $NAMESPACE \
  --install \
  --set global.adminUser.useSecretName=admin-secrets \
  --set global.secrets.useSecretName=my-secrets \
  --set global.redis.addrs="{tyk-redis-master.$NAMESPACE.svc:6379}" \
  --set global.redis.passSecret.name=tyk-redis \
  --set global.redis.passSecret.keyName=redis-password \
  --set global.mongo.driver=mongo-go \
  --set global.mongo.connectionURLSecret.name=mongourl-secrets \
  --set global.mongo.connectionURLSecret.keyName=mongoUrl \
  --set global.storageType=mongo \
  --set tyk-pump.pump.backend='{prometheus,mongo}' 

5. Done!

Now Tyk Dashboard should be accessible through service dashboard-svc-tyk-tyk-dashboard at port 3000. You can login to Dashboard using the admin email and password to start managing APIs. Tyk Gateway will be accessible through service gateway-svc-tyk-tyk-gateway.tyk.svc at port 8080.

You are now ready to create an API.

For the complete installation guide and configuration options, please see Tyk Stack Helm Chart.