Planning your deployment

Before you install API Connect, understand deployment options and requirements for endpoints, load balancing, certificates, and firewalls.

Prerequisite skills for administering API Connect on VMware
The background knowledge and skills that are required to install and manage an API Connect VMware deployment.
Deployment overview for endpoints
When deploying API Connect, you will create one or more endpoints for the subsystems and then configure certificates or mutual TLS for most endpoints.
Planning your deployment topology and profiles
When you install on VMware, API Connect provides a choice of deployment configurations for capacity and high availability (HA). These configurations are named ‘deployment profiles’ and there are several pre-defined profiles to choose from.
Enable JWT instead of mTLS
Use JWT to authenticate communication between API Connect subsystems, instead of mTLS.
Firewall requirements on VMware
Diagram for port configuration, and list of active ports, for an IBM® API Connect deployment on VMware.
Load balancer configuration in a VMware deployment
When deploying API Connect for High Availability, it is recommended that you configure a cluster with at least three nodes and a load balancer. A sample configuration is provided for placing a load balancer in front of your API Connect OVA deployment.
Multiple data center deployment strategies
Strategies for deploying API Connect on VMware across multiple data centers.
Planning your analytics deployment
Plan your API Connect analytics deployment by reviewing options for topology, data modifications, and storage.
API Connect TLS certificate best practices
Best practices for configuring and managing TLS certificates in an API Connect deployment on VMware.

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