Note: Description and code apply to Microgateway v2.x It's not compatible with v1.x series of Microgateway.
The Apigee Microgateway is a lightweight API management proxy that routes requests and responses between API consumers and API providers. As requests are routed the microgateway introduces an eventing model that is based on the concept of http middleware. You can add custom plugins to the http router via the plugins directory. You can also change the code to explicitly load plugins via the gateway.addPlugin method. For more information about plugins see https://github.com/apigee/microgateway-plugins. For more information on how to use the producet see the product documentation
The Microgateway is composed of 3 components
- microgateway-core: a lightweight core server that forwards requests and responses between northbound and southbound endpoints. Core also contains an event model that will call each plugin.
- microgateway-config: a config module that allows a user to pull down and load yaml configs from Apigee Edge
- microgateway-plugins: a file system reference to a collection of directories that allow a user to extend the microgateway.
It also provides a CLI that an admin uses to wire/configure an instance of Microgateway with their Edge (Cloud or On-Premises) org as well as start Microgateway. Below is the workflow of the cli. In order to load custom plugins you must load your plugin in the plugins directory. The plugins directory is configured in the default.yaml or in the specified config directory.
- [Official Microgateway Docs] (http://docs.apigee.com/microgateway/content/edge-microgateway-home)
- [Get support and help] (https://community.apigee.com/spaces/71/index.html)