The WSO2 APK Team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes 1.1.0
Our API platform for Kubernetes (APK) product offers a comprehensive solution for deploying and managing APIs in a Kubernetes environment. Our product releases come in the form of Helm charts, which provide an easy way to install the necessary components in a Kubernetes cluster. Additionally, we have already tagged and released the required Docker images to the Docker registry, streamlining the installation process. With APK, you can quickly and securely deploy your APIs in Kubernetes, making it easier to manage your API infrastructure and streamline your development workflows. Downloads Visit the official website for the downloads here <https://wso2.com/api-platform-for-k8s/>. *WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes Documentation * Refer here <https://apk.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/get-started/quick-start-guide/> for getting started. *What's New On WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes 1.1.0* - APK Control Plane support (Bring APIM Control plane): - API Manager 4.3.0 as the control plane for APK - The WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (APK) introduces a feature that allows developers to directly create APIs within the APK data plane, enhancing the development workflow. Once created, these APIs are accessible in the Control Plane (API Publisher) for further refinement by API product managers, who can add documentation, configure settings, and manage lifecycle stages. Finally, the APIs are published to the developer portal, ready for consumer use. While product managers oversee the API's presentation and manageability, API developers focus on the technical aspect of gateway deployment. - APK as a gateway to API Manager 4.3.0 - The APK gateway functions as a separate gateway environment within the API Manager, allowing users to adhere to their familiar API development process. When it's time to publish the API, the publisher can choose whether to deploy it to the APK gateway or the traditional API Manager gateway. This flexibility enables simultaneous management of both the cloud-native Kubernetes data plane and the API Manager data plane. Consequently, users can leverage the advantages of a Kubernetes-native cloud gateway while still managing their APIs through the familiar API Publisher interface. - Enhanced API Authentication Support - The latest release enhances API security with Mutual SSL Authentication support, introducing two-way SSL authentication to strengthen your API ecosystem. This feature ensures heightened security and trust in API interactions with back end service by mandating mutual authentication between gateway and backend server, significantly bolstering data protection and trustworthiness in your API exchanges. - Extended GraphQL Capabilities:The latest WSO2 APK release introduces robust support for GraphQL, enabling precise data querying and mutation operations in APIs. This feature simplifies development, enhances efficiency, allowing developers and consumers to interact with services more flexibly and effectively. By adopting GraphQL, users gain targeted data access, optimizing the API's responsiveness and adaptability in various application scenarios. - Advanced Monitoring Capabilities with Prometheus - This release introduces Prometheus integration for advanced monitoring within the APK data plane. This enhancement offers detailed insights into API performance and usage, enabling effective troubleshooting and real-time analytics. Users benefit from streamlined monitoring and improved visibility, ensuring robust API reliability and optimized performance. - API subscription and Application support in DataPlane - This feature introduces API subscription and application support within the Data Plane, elevating API consumer interactions with APIs. This upgrade allows subscription management and control, enhancing user engagement and providing a more organized and efficient way to handle API access and subscriptions directly within the Data Plane. - Gateway environment support (to support virtual environment) - APK brings in gateway environment support, allowing for more flexible API deployment and management in virtual settings. This enhancement facilitates cost effective API handling across varied infrastructural setups, streamlining deployment processes and enabling scalability. - Semantic API versioning support for APIs - This feature allows users to implement a structured versioning strategy, ensuring orderly API updates and compatibility management. - API Analytics enhancement to work with Moesif analytics out of the box - Integrate Moesif analytics to unlock actionable insights into your API's performance and usage patterns. This integration equips you with the intelligence to refine your API strategies, improving service quality based on real user data, and ultimately driving better business decisions to foster growth and user satisfaction. For more information please refer about release <https://apk.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/about-apk/what-is-apk/> Improvements On WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes 1.1.0 See details of all the changes including improvements, and bug fixes <https://github.com/wso2/apk/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+closed%3A2023-09-18..2024-04-10+> Known Issues All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes are reported here <https://github.com/wso2/apk/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen>. *How To Contribute* Your feedback is most welcome! Community You can use our Discord Channel and Stackoverflow Collective to engage with a wider audience https://wso2.com/community/ Reporting Issues We encourage you to report issues, improvements, and feature requests regarding WSO2 APK through WSO2 APK GIT Issues <https://github.com/wso2/apk/issues>. Important: Please be advised that security issues must be reported to [email protected], not as a GitHub issue, in order to reach the proper audience. We strongly advise following the WSO2 Security Vulnerability Reporting Guidelines <https://docs.wso2.com/display/Security/WSO2+Security+Vulnerability+Reporting+Guidelines> when reporting the security issues. ~ WSO2 API Platform For Kubernetes Team ~ -- *Sampath Rajapakse* Associate Technical Lead | WSO2 Email : [email protected] Mobile : +94717313761 WSO2 Inc : http://wso2.com [image: http://wso2.com/signature] <http://wso2.com/signature>
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