Is the design such that, if we want more than 2 environments, that can be
facilitated?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is regarding supporting multiple environments (production/sandbox)
> for the API Gateway. Currently API Manager allows having two endpoints per
> API. These are the production and sandbox endpoints. Although the sandbox
> endpoint is supposed to be used for testing purposes, both production and
> sandbox traffic is handled through a single Gateway. This can cause the
> production Gateway be loaded with test traffic as well.
>
> This feature is to allow having two Gateway nodes (at least) for serving
> production and sandbox traffic separately. Following is how it is supposed
> to work.
>
> 1. When an API is published, it will be deployed on both the production
> and sandbox Gateway nodes.
> 2. The production Gateway will only serve production traffic and the
> sandbox Gateway will only serve sandbox traffic.
> 3. The Gateway will use the token type (production or sandbox) to identify
> requests being received.
> 4. The Token endpoint (/token) will remain same on both nodes. The token
> being generated will depend on the type of consumer-key/consumer-secret
> used.
> 5. Both Gateway nodes will share a single APIMGT database. This is where
> information related to APIs, Applications, Token, etc are stored. This will
> be the same database as used by the publisher/store nodes.
>
> Currently an xml template is used for generating an API configuration
> (synapse configuration). To allow the above mentioned feature to work, a
> separate xml template will have to be maintained for each endpoint type
> (production template and sandbox template).
>
> The api-manger.xml currently defines the location (url) of the Gateway. A
> similar configuration will be introduced to define the location of the
> sandbox Gateway. The API Store will display both endpoints accordingly.
>
> Thoughts/Suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> NuwanD.
>
> --
> Nuwan Dias
>
> Senior Software Engineer - WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com
> email : [email protected]
> Phone : +94 777 775 729
>
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Thanks,
Samisa...

Samisa Abeysinghe
VP Engineering
WSO2 Inc.
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