In this blog I am going to document the Oracle API Platform Gateway Node (Version : 18.1.3) Installation steps which is one of the critical components of API Platform Cloud Service.
Oracle provides API Platform Cloud Service as a foundation product for API Management that comprises the Full API Lifecycle, encompassing the complete API Design & Documentation, API Security, Discovery & Consumption, Monetization, and Analysis etc.
Oracle API Platform comprises 3 major components as stated below to serve specific purpose-
Management Portal – This is used to create and manage APIs, deploy APIs to gateways, and manage gateways, and create and manage applications. You can also manage and Deploy APIs and manage gateways with the REST API.
Developer Portal – Application developers subscribe to APIs and get the necessary information to invoke them from this portal.
Gateway Node – This is the security and access control run-time layer for APIs. Each API is deployed to a gateway node from the Management Portal or via the REST API.
In addition to above, Oracle also offer Oracle Apiary to quickly design, prototype, document and test APIs.
Below is the high level architecture diagram of API Platform.
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