Kong Gateway Kong Gateway is an open core project that offers many of the traditional API Management features. Minimal Docker Compose for Kong version: "3.0" services: kong: env_file: .env image: kong/kong-gateway:3.0.1.0 environment: - KONG_DATABASE=postgres - KONG_PG_HOST=db - KONG_PG_DATABASE=kong - KONG_PG_USER=postgres - KONG_PG_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} - KONG_ADMIN_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:8001 - KONG_ADMIN_GUI_URL=http://localhost:8002 ports: - 8000:8000 - 8443:8443 - 8001:8001 - 8444:8444 - 8002:8002 - 8445:8445 - 8003:8003 - 8004:8004 db: env_file: .env image: postgres restart: always volumes: - ./postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data ports: - 5432:5432 adminer: env_file: .env image: adminer restart: always ports: - 8080:8080 And accompanying .env file: POSTGRES_PASSWORD=example KONG_PASSWORD="supersecret123" Docker Compose Installation The official documentation for the project provides a walkthrough for docker installation here Seed the Database docker-compose run kong kong migrations bootstrap Starting Kong docker-compose up -d kong Kong Config and Environment Variables Kong normally reads a config file called kong.conf - an overview of valid configuration settings/directives can be found here The docker image can read these variables from the environment. Simply copy the name of the thing, upercase it and prefix with KONG_ e.g. prefix becomes KONG_PREFIX .