On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Sumedha Rubasinghe <[email protected]>wrote:

> I feel this functionality will be required in many other places. Thus
> should be designed in a generalized manner.
>

+1


>
> The most obvious place I can think of right now is, AppFactory deploying
> applications into different environments.
>

AF is the most obvious one where we have this used already.



> Same can be applicable for Carbon Apps as well.
>
> The generalized design should support:
> 1. N number of environments
> 2. Ability to mark default deployment environments
> 3. @ the point of publishing an API, a list of deployment environments
> will appear for selection
>
> Same pattern be extended in the APaaS world, where a given API can be
> published into multiple stores.
> We also need to critically analyze the model followed by deployment
> synchronizer as it is solving some what similar problem.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>> Phone : +94 777 775 729
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>>
>>
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>> Thanks,
>> Samisa...
>>
>> Samisa Abeysinghe
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