We’re excited to announce the final availability of the Apigee APIM Operator, a brand new function that brings light-weight API Administration and API Gateway capabilities to your GKE surroundings. This launch marks a major step in our technique to allow Apigee for API administration on any gateway, wherever.
What does this imply for you?
- Developer-Native Tooling: For the various cloud-native companies utilizing CNCF-standardized tooling, now you can configure API administration utilizing Kubernetes-like YAML, eliminating the necessity to change between completely different instruments.
- Decreased Friction: By supporting APIM with Kubernetes and CNCF toolchains, we’re lowering the conceptual and operational friction for service builders and platform directors.
- Coverage Administration: Admins can create APIM template guidelines with RBAC, permitting completely different teams to make use of completely different units of insurance policies primarily based on their wants. Customers and admins may add numerous Apigee insurance policies to APIM templates, attaining a comparable degree of performance to Apigee Hybrid.
Key Options and Capabilities
The GA launch permits prospects to configure a GKE cluster and GKE Gateway to make use of an Apigee Hybrid occasion for API administration by means of a site visitors extension (ext-proc callout). It additionally gives API lifecycle administration utilizing YAML-based insurance policies operated by means of the Kubernetes/CNCF toolchain and gives factory-built-in starter defaults for Day-Zero with workload tailoring.
Addressing Buyer Wants
This function addresses the rising want for developer-friendly tooling that simplifies API administration. Apigee, with its perceived complexity and the requirement to change from kubectl to different tooling, was seen as much less agile. The APIM Operator is our response to this suggestions, offering a extra streamlined and environment friendly technique to handle APIs.
Wanting Forward
Constructing on the sturdy basis of this GA launch, we’re exploring potential future enhancements comparable to gRPC and GraphQL assist to accommodate a wider vary of API varieties. We’re additionally evaluating methods to handle present limitations regarding the variety of Gateway assets and coverage attachments, and can replace the neighborhood as new options and assist grow to be out there.
We imagine that the APIM Operator will considerably enhance the developer expertise and streamline API administration for our prospects. We’re excited to see the progressive methods you’ll use this function to construct and deploy your functions.
