Buying a Gateway

Constraints on Buying a Gateway

There are some limitations on creating a gateway. If you cannot create a gateway or a gateway fails to be created, check the following items:

• Gateway quota

  By default, your account can be used to create five gateways in a project. To create more dedicated gateways, submit a service ticket to increase the quota.

• Permissions

  You must be assigned both the APIG Administrator and VPC Administrator roles or assigned the APIG FullAccess policy to create a gateway.

  You can also be granted permissions using custom policies. For details, see APIG Custom Policies.

• Number of available private IP addresses in the subnet

  The basic, professional, enterprise, and platinum editions of APIG require 3, 5, 6, and 7 private IP addresses. Check that the subnet you choose has sufficient private IP addresses on the VPC console.

Network Environment

• Workload

  Gateways are deployed in VPCs (workloads). Cloud resources, such as Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs), in the same workload can call APIs using the private IP address of the gateway deployed in the workload.

  You are advised to deploy your gateways in the same workload as your other services to facilitate network configuration and secure network access.

  

  VPCs (workloads) where gateways have been deployed cannot be changed.

• EIP

  To allow public inbound access to the APIs deployed in a gateway, create an Elastic IP (EIP) and bind it to the gateway.

  

  For APIs whose backend services are deployed on a public network, APIG automatically generates an IP address for public outbound access, and you do not need to create an Elastic IP (EIP).

• Security group

  Similar to a firewall, a security group controls access to a gateway through a specific port and transmission of communication data from the gateway to a specific destination address. For security purposes, create inbound rules for the security group to allow access only on specific ports.

  The security group bound to a gateway must meet the following requirements:

  • Inbound access: To allow the APIs in the gateway to be accessed over public networks or from other security groups, configure inbound rules for the security group to allow access on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).
  • Outbound access: If the backend service of an API is deployed on a public network or in another security group, add outbound rules for the security group to allow access to the backend service address through the API calling port.
  • If the frontend and backend services of an API are bound with the same security group and VPC as the gateway, no inbound or outbound rules are needed to allow access through the preceding ports.

Procedure

1. Go to the APIG console.
   

   • ELB load balancing is enabled by default after gateways are purchased. Gateways with load balancing enabled do not support security groups. To disable access from specific IP addresses, use access control policies.
   • ELB functions as a load balancer for gateways, which support cross-VPC access. Gateways with public inbound access enabled are randomly assigned an EIP and cannot use an existing EIP.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Gateways.

3. Click Buy Gateway. Set the gateway parameters by referring to the following table.

   Table 1 API gateway parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Region	A geographic area where the gateway will be deployed. Deploy the gateway in the same region as your other services to allow all services to communicate with each other through subnets within a workload. This reduces public bandwidth costs and network latency.
   AZ	A physical region where resources use independent power supplies and networks. Availability zones (AZs) are physically isolated but interconnected through an internal network. To enhance gateway availability, deploy the gateway in multiple AZs. APIG does not support gateway migration across AZs.
   Gateway Name	Gateway name.
   Edition	The basic, professional, enterprise, and platinum editions are available. The number of concurrent requests allowed varies depending on the gateway edition. For more information, see Specifications in the API Gateway Service Overview.
   Scheduled Maintenance	Time period when the gateway can be maintained. The technical support personnel will contact you before maintenance. Select a time period with low service demands.
   Public Inbound Access	Determine whether to allow the APIs created in the gateway to be called by external services using an EIP. To enable this function, assign an EIP to the dedicated gateway. NOTE: APIs in the gateway can be called using independent or debugging domain names. There is a limit on the number of times that APIs in an API group can be called per day using the debugging domain name. To overcome the limitation, bind independent domain names to the API group and ensure that the domain names have already been CNAMEd to the EIP of the gateway to which the API group belongs. For example, you have an HTTPS API (path: /apidemo) with public access enabled. The API can be called using "https://{domain}/apidemo", where {domain} indicates an independent domain name bound to the group of the API. The default port is 443.
   Public Outbound Access	Determine whether to allow backend services of the APIs created in the gateway to be deployed on public networks. Set a bandwidth that meets your service requirements for public outbound access. The bandwidth will be billed by hour based on the pricing of the EIP service.
   Network	Select a VPC and subnet for the dedicated gateway. Select the created VPC and subnet from the drop-down list. Create a VPC and subnet by clicking Create VPC. For details, see section "Creating a VPC" in Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.
   Security Group	Select a security group to control inbound and outbound access. If the backend service of an API is deployed on an external network, configure security group rules to allow access to the backend service address through the API calling port. NOTE: If public inbound access is enabled, add inbound rules for the security group to allow access on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).
   Tags	Tags classify your gateways to facilitate search, analysis, and management. If no tag is available, click View predefined tags or enter a tag key and value to create one. Alternatively, set tags on the Tag Management Service (TMS) console by referring to Managing Tags.
   Description	Description about the gateway.

4. Click Next.
5. Confirm the gateway configurations. The instance is created with the status displayed on the screen.

Follow-Up Operations

After the gateway is created, you can create and manage APIs in this gateway. Go to the Gateway Information page. It shows the gateway details, network configurations, and configuration parameters.

You can modify the gateway name, description, scheduled maintenance time window, security group, and EIP.

Before deleting a gateway, ensure that the deletion will not impact your services.