Apache APISIX

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

Overview

Apache APISIX is a high performance, scalable open source cloud native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd. It provides dynamic routing, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, observability and a rich plugin ecosystem, and it manages all of its configuration through a real time admin API and a graphical Dashboard. This image delivers APISIX fully installed and configured as a system service, with its etcd config store and the APISIX Dashboard, so a production grade API gateway is running within minutes of launch.

Application Stack

The Apache APISIX gateway installed from the official Apache APISIX package repository and run by a dedicated service account. A single node etcd config store, the source of truth for every route, upstream, service, consumer and plugin, with its data directory on a dedicated data disk so the gateway configuration is independently resizable and survives instance replacement. The APISIX Dashboard graphical management interface. An nginx reverse proxy that publishes the Dashboard on port 80. Systemd services that start the whole stack on boot and restart it on failure.

API Gateway

Route and proxy traffic to your upstream services with dynamic, hot reloaded configuration. Apply authentication, key auth, JWT, rate limiting, request and response rewriting, CORS, observability and dozens more plugins per route. Configure everything through the admin REST API or the graphical Dashboard, and APISIX applies changes in real time with no restart. The gateway data plane serves HTTP on port 9080 and HTTPS on port 9443.

Secure First Boot

On the first boot of your instance a one shot service generates a fresh admin API key and a fresh Dashboard administrator password, unique to that instance, writes them into the gateway and Dashboard configuration and records them in a root only file. The etcd config store and the admin API bind to the loopback interface only and are never exposed. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

Ready To Use

The APISIX Dashboard is served on port 80 through nginx. Sign in with the generated administrator credentials to create routes and upstreams, attach plugins, manage consumers and watch traffic. The admin API is available on the loopback interface for automation and infrastructure as code. A demo route is seeded on first boot so the gateway and the Dashboard show real data immediately.

cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with deployment, route and upstream design, plugin configuration, authentication and rate limiting, the etcd config store, the Dashboard, TLS and gateway tuning.

Use Cases

A unified API gateway and reverse proxy for microservices. North south and east west traffic management in Kubernetes and on virtual machines. Authentication, rate limiting and observability for public APIs. A Kong or NGINX Plus alternative built on open source. Canary releases, traffic splitting and request transformation at the edge.

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