Quickly install Kong on Ubuntu 14.04

install.md

Install Java, Cassandra & Kong on Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get install -y wget
wget -O kong-install.sh http://git.io/vmMjv
cat kong-install.sh
chmod +x kong-install.sh
sudo ./kong-install.sh
source ~/.bash_profile
sudo cassandra
sudo kong start

kong.sh

# Get things ready
apt-get update
apt-get install -y software-properties-common wget curl

# Install Java
echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | debconf-set-selections 
add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java 
apt-get update 
apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer

# Install Cassandra 
CASSANDRA_VERSION='2.1.8'
CASSANDRA_PATH="cassandra/${CASSANDRA_VERSION}/apache-cassandra-${CASSANDRA_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz"
CASSANDRA_DOWNLOAD='http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/${CASSANDRA_PATH}&as_json=1'
CASSANDRA_MIRROR=`curl -s ${CASSANDRA_DOWNLOAD} | grep -oP "(?<=\"preferred\": \")[^\"]+"`
wget $CASSANDRA_MIRROR$CASSANDRA_PATH
tar -zxf apache-cassandra-${CASSANDRA_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-cassandra-${CASSANDRA_VERSION} /usr/local/cassandra
mkdir /var/lib/cassandra && mkdir /var/log/cassandra
echo 'CASSANDRA_HOME=/usr/local/cassandra' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'PATH=$PATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile

# Install Kong
KONG_VERSION='0.4.0'
wget https://github.com/Mashape/kong/releases/download/${KONG_VERSION}/kong-${KONG_VERSION}.trusty_all.deb
apt-get update
dpkg -i kong-${KONG_VERSION}.*.deb
apt-get install -fy

I found the problem, the Cassandra download mirror was no longer online. I've added a hack to get the preferred mirror at runtime to alleviate this issue in the future and I also added the directory to the path so it's easier to start Cassandra and related tools.