Runtimes overview
Runtimes are individual instances that run as part of a typical API Management deployment setup.
These runtimes can be distributed across diverse deployment models including multi-region, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments while still being monitored and managed collectively through Federated API Management.
Assume that Company A uses the AWS and Azure versions of the IBM Cloud platform. The company has runtimes that are scattered in three different regions in the United States, Europe, and Australia as shown in the figure. Each region has three staging runtime environments - development, pre-production, and production. The existing runtimes in varying landscape are added to the federated API management. After these runtimes are added, federated API management captures the details of all the nine runtimes in the landscape. federated API management offers the ability to manage and monitor all the nine runtimes and the specifics of the associated assets in a single UI without logging in to individual runtimes.
The runtimes get auto populated in federated API management when the connectivity is established between runtimes and federated API management.
In the Catalog page, click the Runtimes tab to view the lists of runtimes in federated API management. You can customize the rows and columns of the runtime list, search, filter, view, edit, and delete the runtime. You can also use REST endpoints to create, retrieve, update, and delete a runtime.