nginxcontrollerapimanagementwebinar-190123215258.pdf
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The document outlines the capabilities and importance of the NGINX Controller's API management module, emphasizing its role in enhancing collaboration, unlocking data, and generating revenue through API development. It details features such as performance monitoring, rate limiting, authentication, and support for multi-cloud environments, which enable effective API lifecycle management. The NGINX technology has been successfully implemented by companies like Capital One to optimize their digital services and facilitate third-party integration.
nginxcontrollerapimanagementwebinar-190123215258.pdf
- 1. Achieve Full API Lifecycle Management Using NGINX Controller January23,2018
- 2. Market Trends: Why APIs are Important Introduction to NGINX Controller – API Management Module Key Capabilities of NGINX Controller – API Management Module 1 2 3 Agenda Confidential – Do Not Distribute Vision for Controller 4 Demo 5
- 3. • Break down siloes and unlock data (within and among organizations) • Increase collaboration amongst developers Unlock data • Primary interface for communication amongst microservices. Create a foundation • Generate revenue and build partnerships with third-party developers and ecosystem of suppliers, distributors, resellers, and even customers • Expose APIs via Dev Portal • “Digital marketplace” for an enterprise Find new digital revenue stream Why Develop APIs? 3 External APIs Internal APIs
- 4. APIs Are Experiencing Explosive Growth Source: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/research-shows-interest-providing-apis-still-high/research/2018/02/23
- 5. API as a source of revenue 5 Source: 2014 Search Security article: https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240222882/API-gateways-emerge-to-address-growing-security-demands 50% of Salesforce’s revenues come from APIs 90% of Expedia's revenues come from APIs
- 6. 40% NGINX Plus deployed as an API gateway Source: NGINX User survey NGINX technology powers Capital One’s developer portal, Devexchange. It has enabled the company to scale its applications to 12 billion operations per day, with peaks of 2 million operations per second at latencies of just 10–30 milliseconds. Third-party developers and partners can provide a first-class digital experience for their customers as well as create new revenue streams by using Capital One’s APIs to open bank accounts, generate personalized credit card offers, and track customer rewards.
- 7. 7 NGINX Controller Mission control for your applications
- 9. API Management API Management Definition & Publication Security Traffic Mgmt. (API GW) Ongoing Monitoring & Maintenance Analytics to Assess API Value Onboarding (Dev Portal) 9
- 10. What Is NGINX Controller API Management Module? 10
- 11. Reduce Complexity with NGINX 11 Data plane (NGINX API GW) does not require runtime connectivity to control plane (NGINX Controller) • High Performance • Same high performance regardless of where API GW is deployed (whether to handle N/S traffic or E/W traffic) • No need for additional software components such as microgateways • Small API GW footprint • Easy to deploy Confidential – Do Not Distribute
- 12. Key Capabilities 12 API Definition & Publication Monitor & Analyze Performance Overview Dashboard Customizable Dashboards Troubleshoot Issues with Alerts Extract Insights with REST API Support Support for Multi- Cloud Environment Rate Limiting Authentication & Authorization
- 13. API Definition & Publication • Create multiple API definitions using an intuitive interface ◦ Create upstream groups and backend servers ◦ Create API definitions and resources ◦ Route resources to upstream groups ◦ Publish resulting config to NGINX Plus instances (API gateway) ◦ Configures NGINX Plus as an API gateway based on best practices 13
- 14. Rate Limiting • Mitigate DDoS attacks and protect your applications by setting rate limits: ◦ Specify the maximum request rate for each client, consumer, or resource ◦ Enforce two-stage rate limits: - Burst and reject - Throttle and reject ◦ Protect API endpoints and ensure SLAs for API consumers ◦ Define multiple rate limiting policies based on the varying needs of your API consumers 14
- 15. Authentication & Authorization • Create and manage API keys for API consumers in order to to authenticate and provide access to resources : ◦ Import API keys from external systems ◦ Share with API consumers 15
- 16. Monitor & Analyze Performance 16 • Is any API GW unavailable? • When do we see a slowdown? • Where are HTTP errors occurring?
- 17. Monitor & Analyze Performance 17 Deep visibility and insights into KPIs (per API GW basis) using an agent: • Visualizerealteamtrafficandsystemstats • Analyzeusage& performancetrendsincludingfor 200metrics: • System(OS ) • NGINX Plusinstance
- 18. Tag Your Environment 18 • Powerful way to organize and manage your configurations • Categorize API Gateways based on location, person, purpose, environment • Filter configuration by Tags
- 19. Overview Dashboard 19 • Overview page: Summarizes metrics across multiple instances ◦ UniqueApplicationHealthScore:Aggregate measure of successfulrequestsandtimely responses ◦ CPU usage ◦ Performance ◦ Errors • Verify health of environment • Helps showcase application health to key stakeholders
- 20. Customize Dashboards 20 Measure what matters to you by creating your own dashboard: • Startquicklyfrompre-definedtemplates • Createfromscratch • Createdashboardsspecifictoan EntryPoint
- 21. Troubleshoot Issues with Alerts 21 Helps you meet your SLAs by ensuring performance and reliability of your applications: • Receivealertsbased on thresholds • Seeerrorsinrealtime • Upcomingslackintegrationallowseasy collaborationwithteammembers
- 22. Support for Multi-Cloud Environment 22 NGINX Controller is a Docker package Canbe deployedonanypublic orprivate cloud CanmanageNGINX Plusinstanceson anypublicor privatecloud
- 23. Extract Insights with REST API Support 23 REST API: Securelyextracthealthand performancemetricsandintegrateinto monitoringtoolofchoice
- 24. Controller Vision 24 • Orchestration platform forall NGINX Plus products • Analytics platform forall NGINX Plus products • Modular,use case centric approach • Ecosystem friendly CLI GUI App Delivery API Management NGINX Controller Orchestration Analytics NGINX Plus Service Mesh
- 25. Karthik Krishnaswamy | [email protected] Thank you! Try API Management Module free for 30 days: https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx- controller/#free-trial-controller