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API Operator for Kubernetes

Introduction

As microservices are increasingly being deployed on Kubernetes, the need to expose these microservices as well documented, easy to consume, managed APIs is becoming important to develop great applications. The API operator for Kubernetes makes APIs a first-class citizen in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Similar to deploying microservices, you can now use this operator to deploy APIs for individual microservices or compose several microservices into individual APIs. With this users will be able to expose their microservice as managed API in Kubernetes environment without any additional work.

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Quick Start Guide

In this document, we will walk through on the following.

  • Deploy a sample microservice in Kubernetes
  • Configure the API controller
  • Install API Operator in Kubernetes
  • Install the API portal and security token service
  • Expose the sample microservice as a managed API
  • Invoke the API
  • Push the deployed API to the API portal
  • Generate an access token for the API

Installation Prerequisites

  • Kubectl

  • Kubernetes v1.14 or above

    • Minimum CPU : 6vCPU
    • Minimum Memory : 6GB

  • An account in DockerHub or private docker registry

  • Download k8s-api-operator-1.2.2.zip and extract the zip

    1. This zip contains the artifacts that required to deploy in Kubernetes.
    2. Extract k8s-api-operator-1.2.2.zip
    >> cd k8s-api-operator-1.2.2

    Note: You need to run all commands from within the k8s-api-operator-1.2.2 directory.


Step 1: Deploy a sample microservice in Kubernetes

  • Let’s deploy a sample microservice in K8s which lists the details of products. This will deploy a pod and service for the sample service.

    >> kubectl apply -f scenarios/scenario-1/products_dep.yaml

Output:
service/products created
deployment.apps/products-deployment created

    The following command will give you the details of the microservice.

    >> kubectl get services products

Output:
NAME       TYPE           CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP       PORT(S)        AGE
products   LoadBalancer   10.83.1.131   104.197.114.248   80:30475/TCP   27m
    If you are using Minikube click here

    Note: By default API operator requires the LoadBalancer service type which is not supported in Minikube by default. Here is how you can enable it on Minikube.

    • On Minikube, the LoadBalancer type makes the Service accessible through the minikube service command.

      >> minikube service <SERVICE_NAME> --url
>> minikube service products --url

      The IP you receive from above output can be used as the "EXTERNAL_IP" in the following command.


  • To test the microservice, execute the following commands.

    >> curl -X GET http://<EXTERNAL_IP>:80/products
     
Output:
{"products":[
    {"name":"Apples", "id":101, "price":"$1.49 / lb"},
    {"name":"Macaroni & Cheese", "id":151, "price":"$7.69"},
    {"name":"ABC Smart TV", "id":301, "price":"$399.99"},
    {"name":"Motor Oil", "id":401, "price":"$22.88"},
    {"name":"Floral Sleeveless Blouse", "id":501, "price":"$21.50"}
]}
    >> curl -X GET http://<EXTERNAL_IP>:80/products/101
     
Output:
{"name":"Apples", "id":101, "price":"$1.49 / lb", "reviewScore":"0", "stockAvailability":false}

Step 2: Configure API Controller

  • Download API controller v3.2.0 or the latest v3.2.x from the API Manager Tooling web site

    • Under Dev-Ops Tooling section, you can download the tool based on your operating system.

  • Extract the API controller distribution and navigate inside the extracted folder using the command-line tool

  • Add the location of the extracted folder to your system's $PATH variable to be able to access the executable from anywhere.

  • You can find available operations using the below command.

    >> apictl --help

Step 3: Install API Operator

  • Set the operator version as v1.2.2 by executing following in a terminal.

    >> export WSO2_API_OPERATOR_VERSION=v1.2.2

  • Execute the following command to install API Operator interactively and configure a repository to push the built managed API image.

  • Select "Docker Hub" as the repository type.

  • Enter repository name of your Docker Hub account (usually it is the username as well).

    • Supports both jennifer and docker.io/jennifer (backward compatibility) as repository name.

  • Enter username and the password.

  • Confirm configuration are correct with entering "Y".

    >> apictl install api-operator
Choose registry type:
1: Docker Hub
2: Amazon ECR
3: GCR
4: HTTP Private Registry
5: HTTPS Private Registry
6: Quay.io
Choose a number: 1: 1
Enter repository name: jennifer
Enter username: jennifer
Enter password: *******

Repository: jennifer
Username  : jennifer
Confirm configurations: Y: Y

    Output:

    customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/apis.wso2.com created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/ratelimitings.wso2.com created
...

namespace/wso2-system created
deployment.apps/api-operator created
...

[Setting to K8s Mode]

Step 4: Install the API portal and security token service

WSO2AM Kubernetes Operator is used to deploy API portal and security token service.

  • Install the WSO2AM Operator in Kubernetes.

    >> apictl install wso2am-operator

namespace/wso2-system created
serviceaccount/wso2am-pattern-1-svc-account created
...
configmap/wso2am-p1-apim-2-conf created
configmap/wso2am-p1-mysql-dbscripts created
[Setting to K8s Mode]

  • Install API Portal and security token service under a namespace called "wso2"

    >> apictl apply -f k8s-artifacts/wso2am-operator/api-portal/

Output:
namespace/wso2 created
configmap/apim-conf created
apimanager.apim.wso2.com/custom-pattern-1 created

  • Access API Portal and security token service

    >> apictl get pods -n wso2

Output:
NAME                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
wso2apim-596f9d5ff6-mcch6   1/1     Running   0          5m7s
    
>> apictl get services -n wso2

Output:
NAME       TYPE       CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                                                       AGE
wso2apim   NodePort   10.96.209.21   <none>        8280:32004/TCP,8243:32003/TCP,9763:32002/TCP,9443:32001/TCP   5m24s

    Note: To access the API portal, add host mapping entry to the /etc/hosts file. As we have exposed the API portal service in Node Port type, you can use the IP address of any Kubernetes node.

    <ANY_K8S_NODE_IP>  wso2apim

    • For Docker for Mac use "127.0.0.1" for the K8s node IP

    • For Minikube, use minikube ip command to get the K8s node IP

    • For GKE

      (apictl get nodes -o jsonpath='{ $.items[*].status.addresses[?(@.type=="ExternalIP")].address }')
      • This will give the external IPs of the nodes available in the cluster. Pick any IP to include in /etc/hosts file.

      API Portal - https://wso2apim:32001/devportal


Step 5: Expose the sample microservice as a managed API

Let’s deploy an API for our microservice. The Open API definition of the API can be found in the scenario/scenario-1/products-swagger.yaml.

The endpoint of our microservice is referred in the API definition.

  • Deploy the API using the following command.

    Note: For this sample, using the flag --override to update configs, if there are images in the docker registry which where created during older versions of API Operator.

    >> apictl add api \
            -n <API_NAME> \
            --from-file=<LOCATION_TO_THE_OPEN_API_DEFINITION_1> \
            --from-file=<LOCATION_TO_THE_OPEN_API_DEFINITION_2> \
            --override

>> apictl add api \
            -n online-store \
            --from-file=scenarios/scenario-1/products_swagger.yaml \
            --override

Output:
creating configmap with swagger definition
configmap/online-store-1-swagger created
creating API definition
api.wso2.com/online-store created

    Optional Parameters

    --namespace           Namespace to deploy the API
--replicas            Number of replicas
--override            Overwrite the docker image creation for already created docker image
--mode                Property to override the deploying mode. Available modes: privateJet, sidecar
--version             Property to override the API version
--env                 Environment variables to be passed to deployment
--image               Image of the API. If specified, ignores the value of --override

>> apictl add api \
        -n <API_NAME> \
        --from-file=<LOCATION_TO_THE_OPEN_API_DEFINITION> \
        --replicas=<NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS> \
        --namespace=<DESIRED_NAMESPACE> \
        --mode=<DEPLOY_MODE> \
        --version=<OVERRIDE_VERSION> \
        --env=<KEY_1>=<VALUE_1> --env=<KEY_2>=<VALUE_2> \
        --image=<EXISTING_IMAGE>

    Note: Namespace and replicas are optional parameters. If they are not provided, the default namespace will be used and 1 replica will be created.

    When you deploy the API, it will first run the Kaniko job. This basically builds the docker image of the API and pushes it to Docker-Hub.

    Once the Kaniko job is completed, it will deploy the managed API for your microservice.

  • Verify the API deployment

    If you list down the pods immediately after the add API command you will only see the pod related to Kaniko job. Once it is completed you will see the deployed API. If you are on Minikube, this might take several minutes.

    >> apictl get pods 

Output:
NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
online-store-kaniko-fxvkt              1/1     Running   0          45s

    If you execute the same command after sometime you will see the managed API has been deployed after the Kaniko job.

    >> apictl get pods 

Output:
NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
online-store-6957fc89d6-kn9sp          1/1     Running   0          21s
    >> apictl get services 

Output:
NAME               TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                         AGE
online-store       LoadBalancer   10.83.9.142    35.232.188.134   9095:31055/TCP,9090:32718/TCP   57s

    You now have a Microgateway deployed in Kubernetes that runs your API for the microservice.


Step 6: Invoke the API

  • Retrieve the API service endpoint details

    The API service is exposed as the Load Balancer service type. You can get the API service endpoint details by using the following command.

    >> apictl get services

Output:
NAME               TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                         AGE
online-store       LoadBalancer   10.83.9.142    35.232.188.134   9095:31055/TCP,9090:32718/TCP   57s
    If you are using Minikube click here

    Note: By default API operator requires the LoadBalancer service type which is not supported in Minikube by default. Here is how you can enable it on Minikube.

    • On Minikube, the LoadBalancer type makes the Service accessible through the minikube service command.

      >> minikube service <SERVICE_NAME> --url
>> minikube service online-store --url

      The IP you receive from above output can be used as the "EXTERNAL_IP" in the following command.

  • Invoke the API as a regular microservice

    Let’s observe what happens if you try to invoke the API as a regular microservice.

    >> curl -X GET "https://<EXTERNAL_IP>:9095/store/v1.0.0/products" -k

    You will get an error as below.

    {
    "fault": {
        "code": 900902,
        "message": "Missing Credentials",
        "description": "Missing Credentials. Make sure your API invocation call has a header: \"Authorization\""
    }
}

    Since the API is secured now, you are experiencing the above error. Hence you need a valid access token to invoke the API.

  • Invoke the API with an access token

    You can find a sample token below.

    TOKEN=eyJ4NXQiOiJNell4TW1Ga09HWXdNV0kwWldObU5EY3hOR1l3WW1NNFpUQTNNV0kyTkRBelpHUXpOR00wWkdSbE5qSmtPREZrWkRSaU9URmtNV0ZoTXpVMlpHVmxOZyIsImtpZCI6Ik16WXhNbUZrT0dZd01XSTBaV05tTkRjeE5HWXdZbU00WlRBM01XSTJOREF6WkdRek5HTTBaR1JsTmpKa09ERmtaRFJpT1RGa01XRmhNelUyWkdWbE5nX1JTMjU2IiwiYWxnIjoiUlMyNTYifQ.eyJzdWIiOiJhZG1pbkBjYXJib24uc3VwZXIiLCJhdWQiOiJKRmZuY0djbzRodGNYX0xkOEdIVzBBR1V1ME1hIiwibmJmIjoxNTk3MjExOTUzLCJhenAiOiJKRmZuY0djbzRodGNYX0xkOEdIVzBBR1V1ME1hIiwic2NvcGUiOiJhbV9hcHBsaWNhdGlvbl9zY29wZSBkZWZhdWx0IiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3dzbzJhcGltOjMyMDAxXC9vYXV0aDJcL3Rva2VuIiwiZXhwIjoxOTMwNTQ1Mjg2LCJpYXQiOjE1OTcyMTE5NTMsImp0aSI6IjMwNmI5NzAwLWYxZjctNDFkOC1hMTg2LTIwOGIxNmY4NjZiNiJ9.UIx-l_ocQmkmmP6y9hZiwd1Je4M3TH9B8cIFFNuWGHkajLTRdV3Rjrw9J_DqKcQhQUPZ4DukME41WgjDe5L6veo6Bj4dolJkrf2Xx_jHXUO_R4dRX-K39rtk5xgdz2kmAG118-A-tcjLk7uVOtaDKPWnX7VPVu1MUlk-Ssd-RomSwEdm_yKZ8z0Yc2VuhZa0efU0otMsNrk5L0qg8XFwkXXcLnImzc0nRXimmzf0ybAuf1GLJZyou3UUTHdTNVAIKZEFGMxw3elBkGcyRswzBRxm1BrIaU9Z8wzeEv4QZKrC5NpOpoNJPWx9IgmKdK2b3kIWJEFreT3qyoGSBrM49Q

    Copy and paste the above token in the command line. Now you can invoke the API using the cURL command as below.

    Format: 

>> curl -X GET "https://<EXTERNAL_IP>:9095/<API-context>/<API-resource>"  -H "Authorization:Bearer $TOKEN" -k

    Example commands:

    >> curl -X GET "https://35.232.188.134:9095/store/v1.0.0/products" -H "Authorization:Bearer $TOKEN" -k

>> curl -X GET "https://35.232.188.134:9095/store/v1.0.0/products/101" -H "Authorization:Bearer $TOKEN" -k

    Note: In a production-level scenario, there should be a way to discover the available services and obtain an access token in a secured manner. For this, we need to push this API to API Portal and get an OAuth 2.0 access token


Step 7: Pushing the API to the API Portal

To make the API discoverable for other users and get the access tokens, we need to push the API to the API portal. Then the app developers/subscribers can navigate to the devportal (https://wso2apim:32001/devportal) to perform the following actions.

  • Create an application
  • Subscribe the API to the application
  • Generate a JWT access token

The following commands will help you to push the API to the API portal in Kubernetes. Commands of the API Controller can be found here

  • Add the API portal as an environment to the API controller using the following command.

    >> apictl add-env -e k8s \
            --apim https://wso2apim:32001 \
            --token https://wso2apim:32001/oauth2/token

Output:
Successfully added environment 'k8s'

  • Initialize the API project using API Controller

    >> apictl init online-store \
            --oas=./scenarios/scenario-1/products_swagger.yaml \
            --initial-state=PUBLISHED

Output:
Initializing a new WSO2 API Manager project in /home/wso2/k8s-api-operator/scenarios/scenario-1/online-store
Project initialized
Open README file to learn more

  • Import the API to the API portal. [IMPORTANT]

    For testing purpose use admin as username and password when prompted. 

    >> apictl login k8s -k
>> apictl import-api -f online-store/ -e k8s -k

Output:
Successfully imported API

Step 8: Generate an access token for the API

  • By default the API is secured with JWT. Hence a valid JWT token is needed to invoke the API. You can obtain a JWT token using the API Controller command as below.

    >> apictl get-keys -n online-store -v v1.0.0 -e k8s --provider admin -k

Output:
API name:  OnlineStore & version:  v1.0.0 exists
API  OnlineStore : v1.0.0 subscribed successfully.
Access Token:  eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IlpqUm1ZVE13TlRKak9XVTVNbUl6TWpnek5ESTNZMkl5TW1JeVkyRXpNamRoWmpWaU1qYzBaZz09In0.eyJhdWQiOiJodHRwOlwvXC9vcmcud3NvMi5hcGltZ3RcL2dhdGV3YXkiLCJzdWIiOiJhZG1pbkBjYXJib24uc3VwZXIiLCJhcHBsaWNhdGlvbiI6eyJvd25lciI6ImFkbWluIiwidGllciI6IlVubGltaXRlZCIsIm5hbWUiOiJkZWZhdWx0LWFwaWN0bC1hcHAiLCJpZCI6MiwidXVpZCI6bnVsbH0sInNjb3BlIjoiYW1fYXBwbGljYXRpb25fc2NvcGUgZGVmYXVsdCIsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93c28yYXBpbTozMjAwMVwvb2F1dGgyXC90b2tlbiIsInRpZXJJbmZvIjp7IlVubGltaXRlZCI6eyJzdG9wT25RdW90YVJlYWNoIjp0cnVlLCJzcGlrZUFycmVzdExpbWl0IjowLCJzcGlrZUFycmVzdFVuaXQiOm51bGx9fSwia2V5dHlwZSI6IlBST0RVQ1RJT04iLCJzdWJzY3JpYmVkQVBJcyI6W3sic3Vic2NyaWJlclRlbmFudERvbWFpbiI6ImNhcmJvbi5zdXBlciIsIm5hbWUiOiJPbmxpbmUtU3RvcmUiLCJjb250ZXh0IjoiXC9zdG9yZVwvdjEuMC4wXC92MS4wLjAiLCJwdWJsaXNoZXIiOiJhZG1pbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOiJ2MS4wLjAiLCJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25UaWVyIjoiVW5saW1pdGVkIn1dLCJjb25zdW1lcktleSI6Im1Hd0lmUWZuZHdZTVZxT25JVW9Rczhqc1B0Y2EiLCJleHAiOjE1NzIyNjAyMjQsImlhdCI6MTU3MjI1NjYyNCwianRpIjoiNTNlYWJkYWEtY2IyZC00MTQ0LWEzYWUtZDNjNTIxMjgwYjM4In0.QU9rt4WBLcIOXzDkdiBpo_SAN_W4jpMlymPSgdhe4mf4FmdepA6hIXa_NXdzWyOST2XcHskWleL-9bhv4GecvDaCcMUwfSKOo_8DuphYhtv0BukpGpyfzK2SZDtABxxtdRUmNDcyXJiC5NU4laXlDGzUruI_LISjkeeCaK4gA93YQC3Nd0xe14uIO940UNsSiUuI5cZkeKlB9k5vKIzjN1-M-SJCvtDkusvdPTgkSHZL29ICsMQl9rTSRm6dL4xq9rcH7osD-o_amgurkm1RvNagzN0buku6y4tuEyisZvRUlNkQ2KRzX6E6VwNKHAFQ7CG95-k-QYvXDGDXYGNisw

    Note: You also have the option to generate a token by logging into the devportal.


Documentation

You can find the documentation here.

Cleanup

Execute the following commands if you wish to clean up the Kubernetes cluster by removing all the applied artifacts and configurations related to API operator and API portal.

>> apictl remove env k8s;
   apictl set --mode k8s;
   apictl delete api online-store;
   apictl delete -f scenarios/scenario-1/products_dep.yaml;
   apictl delete -f k8s-artifacts/api-portal/;
   apictl uninstall api-operator;

Sample Scenarios

  1. Sample 1: Expose a K8s service as an API
  2. Sample 2: Deploy pet store service as a managed API in k8s cluster
  3. Sample 3: Deploy pet store service as a managed API secured with Basic Auth
  4. Sample 4: Deploy pet store service as a managed API secured with JWT
  5. Sample 5: Deploy pet store service as a managed API secured with OAuth2
  6. Sample 6: Apply rate-limiting to managed API in Kubernetes cluster
  7. Sample 7: Deploy APIs in k8s in private jet mode
  8. Sample 8: Deploy APIs in k8s in sidecar mode
  9. Sample 9: Expose an API with multiple service endpoints
  10. Sample 10: Apply interceptors to an API
  11. Sample 11: Enabling Analytics for managed API
  12. Sample 12: Apply distributed rate-limiting to managed API in Kubernetes cluster
  13. Sample 13: K8s API Operator for Istio
  14. Sample 14: API Management in Serverless (Knative)
  15. Sample 15: Apply Java interceptors to an API
  16. Sample 16: Deploy multiple swagger-projects as one API
  17. Sample 17: Expose an API using Ingress
  18. Sample 18: Expose an API using Openshift Route
  19. Sample 19: Deploy petstore service as a managed API secured with API Key Authentication
  20. Sample 20: Horizontal pod auto-scaling with custom-metrics
  21. Sample 21: Deploy a service as a managed API using WSO2 API Manager locally
  22. Sample 22: Generating Backend JWT
  23. Sample 23: Add Configmaps and Secrets to Micro-gateway Deployment
  24. Sample 24: Using event hub in WSO2 API Manager

Troubleshooting Guide

You can refer troubleshooting guide.

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