Adding self-managed gateways in V10 Reserved

IBM® API Connect V10 Reserved deploys with the IBM DataPower gateways installed. You can deploy additional DataPower gateways for use with your reserved instance.

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Your V10 Reserved instance is deployed with a DataPower API Gateway and a DataPower V5-compatible Gateway.

A gateway hosts published APIs and provides the API endpoints used by client applications. Gateways also execute API proxy invocations to back-end systems and enforce API policies that manage client identification, security, and rate limiting. You might want to deploy additional gateways for your V10 Reserved instance; for example, to distribute API endpoints for different purposes. Any gateways that you deploy are considered remote to the V10 Reserved instance deployment, and you must manage them.

To install and register a self-managed gateway with your V10 Reserved instance, complete the following tasks: