What's New

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Reference load balance channel

The reference load balance channel can reference other existing load balance channels.

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Load Balance Channels

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Traffic Mirroring

APIG mirrors requests to images for traffic analysis without affecting online services.

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Traffic Mirroring

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Custom Inbound Port

APIG allows you to customize inbound ports for gateways so that clients can access different backend services through different ports.

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Custom Inbound Port

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Gateway access control policies

APIG provides access control policies to gateways. You can set an IP address blacklist or whitelist to forbid or allow an IP address to access a gateway. 

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Viewing or Modifying Gateway Information

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Response Cache

You can configure a response cache policy to cache responses returned by the backend service (server) in APIG. When a client sends the same request, APIG does not need to send the request to the backend service but directly returns the cached response. This effectively reduces the backend load and API invoking latency.

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Response Cache

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Orchestration Rule Management

APIG supports API parameter orchestration. You can configure different algorithm rules to map new request parameters and values.

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Orchestration Rule Management

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Unescaping parameters supported for API request path

You can configure whether to escape the parameters of the API path.

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Configuring Parameters

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gRPC APIs with a function backend

gRPC APIs can use a function backend.

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Creating a gRPC API

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Client request customization

You can customize client request parameters, such as enabling or disabling HTTP/2 and modifying the request body timeout.

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Configuring Parameters

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Support for OpenAPI 3.0

APIs can be imported or exported in compliance with OpenAPI 3.0.

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Importing and Exorting APIs

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API policy cloning

You can quickly create API policies by cloning existing ones. Request throttling and signature key policies cannot be cloned.

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Creating a Policy and Binding It to APIs

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Server-sent events(SSE) transmission

The responses of backend APIs are output in streaming mode for character-based rendering.

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Configuring Parameters

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gRPC supported

If both your client and server are of the gRPC type, you can create an gRPC API to open up your backend capabilities.

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Creating a gRPC API

Routing gRPC Service Requests

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gzip compression

Responses can be compressed using gzip to reduce public network traffic.

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Configuring Parameters

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Third-Party Authorizer

You can configure your own service to authenticate API requests. APIG first invokes this service for authentication, and then invokes the backend service after receiving a success response.

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Third-Party Authorizer

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Custom Logs

Whether to enable custom logs. Once enabled, values of specified parameters will be printed in specified locations of calling logs for all APIs in the gateway.

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Configuring Parameters

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Cloning an API

To improve API creation efficiency, you can clone an API with a custom name and path.

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Cloning an API

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Custom authentication headers

You can configure custom headers for app authentication or authentication with HMAC or Basic Auth signature key policies.

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Configuring Parameters

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Frontend HTTPS two-way authentication

CA certificates can be added to verify client certificates. When a client connects to a server, the client verifies the server and the server also verifies the client.

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SSL Certificates

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Microservice load balance channels

Server channels balance the loads of backend services and microservice channels automatically synchronize service node changes.

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Load Balance Channels

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HTTP-to-HTTPS auto redirection

Requests of HTTP backends can be automatically redirected to HTTPS.

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Managing Domain Names

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Gateway tags

Tags classify your dedicated gateways to facilitate search, analysis, and management.

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Tag Management

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Bandwidth monitoring

APIG provides monitoring metrics about inbound and outbound bandwidth.

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Bandwidth Monitoring

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Importing CCE workloads

By importing Cloud Container Engine (CCE) workloads, you can open your CCE service capabilities through APIs.

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Importing a CCE Workload

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Redirection from HTTP to HTTPS

HTTP backends can be redirected to HTTPS.

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Signature keys

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Log modularization

Log templates are available for O&M.

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Log Analysis

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Request throttling 2.0 policy

The new console supports high-performance and single-node request throttling.

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Request Throttling 2.0

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New APIG console

The new console is now available with powerful policy-based API control.

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New Console

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Kafka log push policy

The new console supports collecting calling logs of open APIs. Kafka log push policies push API calling logs to Kafka for users to obtain.

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Kafka Log Push

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SSL certificate management

The new console supports SSL certificate management.

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SSL Certificates

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Credential quota policy

You can create quota policies for a client (API caller) on the new console to limit the number of API calls during a specified period.

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Binding a Credential Quota Policy

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Access control policy

The new console supports access control policies. They restrict API calls from specified client (API caller) IP addresses to protect backend services.

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Binding an Access Control Policy

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Gateway specification modification

If the specifications of a gateway cannot meet your service requirements, upgrade the specifications.

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Modifying Specifications

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Circuit breaker policy

The new console supports circuit breaker policies. They protect your backend services when a performance issue occurs.

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Circuit Breaker

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API calling through HTTP 2.0

APIs can be called through HTTP 2.0 with better latency and performance.

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HTTP 2.0

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Request throttling plugin

The plug-in is used to limit the number of times an API can be called within a specific time period. Parameter-based, basic, and excluded throttling is supported.

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Request Throttling

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Dedicated gateway APIs

Dedicated gateways enable you to decouple internal systems of your enterprise and deploy services in Virtual Private Clouds(VPCs). The services communicate with each other through RESTful APIs, with high network security.

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Service Overview

Buying a Dedicated Gateway

Best Practices

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API design, review, and release

You can design, develop, review, and release APIs.

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Creating an API Group

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API export

You can export APIs in JSON or YAML format

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Exporting APIs

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Multi-project management

API Gateway supports multi-project management.

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Enterprise Project