Access Control Enforcement

Require all requests to match operation

Requires every incoming request to match a defined operation from an API or API package in Dev Portal. If a request doesn’t match, ACE rejects the request outright with a 404. All traffic will be rejected except operations or Routes in published APIs linked to an ACE-enabled Kong Gateway.

Warning: Setting the match_policy to required can block all traffic with a 404. Any undefined endpoints will be blocked. If you accidentally enable this in your control planes, this could cause a potential outage in production.

Prerequisites

  • An API or API package in Dev Portal, linked to the control plane that uses the ACE plugin instance

Set up the plugin

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