[Announce] WSO2 API Manager Micro Gateway Toolkit 2.5.0-Beta Released!

[Malintha Amarasinghe]

The WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the release of API Manager
Micro Gateway Toolkit 2.5.0-Beta. It's now available to download.
Distribution

https://github.com/wso2/product-microgateway/releases/
download/v2.5.0-beta/wso2am-micro-gw-toolkit-2.5.0-beta.zip
Documentation

https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM2xx/Configuring+the+API+Microgateway
Introduction

The Microgateway Toolkit provides the capability to create specialized
gateway distribution (Microgateway distributions) where only a single API or
a group of APIs are included. Once a Microgateway distribution is started,
it will start serving those specific API(s) right away.

In summary, a Microgateway is a specialized form of the WSO2 API Gateway by
having below main characteristics:

   - Its ability to execute in isolation without mandatory connections to
   other components (Key Manager, Traffic Manager, etc).
   - Ability to host a subset of APIs of choice (defined on the API
   Publisher) instead of all.
   - Immutability - if you update an API you need to re-create the
   container/instance, no hot deployment.
   Microgateway offers you a proxy that is capable of performing security
   validations (OAuth, Basic Auth, Signed JWT), in-memory (local) rate
   limiting and operational analytics.

Design Goals

Following are some of its main expectations of Microgateway


   - Ability to host just one or a selected set (subset) of APIs only.
   - Ability to execute in complete isolation once setup, without having
   the need to contact the Management or Security components.
   - Easy integration with CI/CD processes.
   - Seamless integration with deployment automation tools and techniques.

Architecture

The following diagram illustrates the process of getting an API (or a
selected set of APIs) to be hosted on a Microgateway.

[image: Architecture]
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wso2/product-microgateway/master/architecture.png>
Setting up Microgateway Toolkit

This product will include a CLI, the B7a platform distribution and a few
B7a extensions (Endpoints and Filters). The Toolkit will have two main
responsibilities.

   - Setting up a Microgateway project.
   - Running the Microgateway project.

These two steps will be treated as two phases. One will first complete the
"setup" phase and move on to the "build" phase. The reason for treating
them as phases is to make it possible for developers to take control of the
runtime if and when required. For example, what gets run as default on a
Microgateway is a simple API proxy. If a developer needs to perform some
sort of an integration or change the Ballerina source files for some other
reason, he could engage with the project after the setup phase and do the
required modifications before the distribution is built.
Bug Fixes And Improvements in 2.5.0-Beta

   - GitHub (Product-Microgateway
   <https://github.com/wso2/product-microgateway/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed>
   )

Known Issues

All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 API Manager Microgateway Toolkit are
reported at the following location:

   - GitHub (Product-microgateway
   <https://github.com/wso2/product-microgateway/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue>
   )

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Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults, and feature
requests regarding WSO2 API Manager Micro Gateway through the public API
Manager Micro Gateway Git Repo
<https://github.com/wso2/product-microgateway/issues>.
-- The WSO2 API Manager Team --


-- 
Malintha Amarasinghe
*WSO2, Inc. - lean | enterprise | middleware*
http://wso2.com/

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