Defining your Cloud Manager topology

To define your API Connect on-premises cloud, you define availability zones and register services within those zones to securely create, promote, and track APIs. A default availability zone is provided with the installation.

About this task

The Cloud Manager topology consists of availability zones that contain the API Connect services. Availability zones can contain one or more DataPower® gateway services, event gateway services, analytics services, and portal services.

The following diagram illustrates the topology for services and availability zones in an API Connect network:

Services and availability zones

One of the following roles is required to register and manage services:

  • Administrator
  • Topology Administrator
  • Owner
  • A custom role with the Topology:Manage permission
Following are the tasks involved in defining the API Connect topology:
  • Create one or more availability zones.
  • Register one or more DataPower gateway, event gateway, analytics, and portal services in each availability zone
  • Associate an analytics service with each DataPower gateway service
  • Set the visibility for the services

When the cloud is defined and an email server is configured, you can invite other users to access API Manager to create APIs. You then expose these APIs to the consumers (the development community) through the Developer Portal user interface.

To define the API Connect cloud, complete the following tasks: