kong error using deck: cannot create or update 'services' entities when not using a database - rhel7

Question

I have set up kong in dbless mode on RHEL by following the below documentation
https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/latest/install-and-run/rhel/
Kong gateway is successfully started. Below are the configurations I added in kong.conf file where database is turned to off and path to declarative kong.yaml is specified
declarative_config = /temp/kong/kong.yml
database = off
Also, below is current .yaml file where I created a service using below link
https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/2.8.x/get-started/comprehensive/expose-services/
_format_version: "1.1"
services:
- host: mockbin.org
name: example_service
port: 80
protocol: http
routes:
- name: mocking
paths:
- /mock
strip_path: true
I have also installed deck to sync this the declarative configuration.
However, when I use the deck sync command to add this service to kong, I get below error
creating service example_service
Summary:
Created: 0
Updated: 0
Deleted: 0
Error: 1 errors occurred:
while processing event: {Create} service example_service failed: HTTP status 405 (message: "cannot create or update 'services' entities when not using a database")
Kindly need ideas on what could be wrong as I believe we can create a service in dbless mode, and I also think that this is the declarative format which should work. Looking forward to hear. Thanks

Answer 1

Kindly need ideas on what could be wrong as I believe we can create a service in dbless mode, and I also think that this is the declarative format which should work. Looking forward to hear. Thanks
You are correct that we can create a service in dbless mode, however the approach will be different.
If you already have the new config file in yaml format. you can load it to Kong using /config endpoint
I also think that decK should be process-agnostic and can be used with both db and dbless mode, But as it stands, loading yaml config file with /config endpoint looks like the best option.