Unified Management of Ingress and Egress Across Multiple API Gateways | WSO2Con Barcelona 2025
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Video Summary: Managing the API Ecosystem
- Introduction
- Presentation on the challenges of API management in a growing ecosystem with increasing APIs, control planes, and identity providers.
- Discuss the complexities and fragmentation in current API management practices.
- Centralized vs. Decentralized API Management
- Centralized Management: Single control plane, uniform policies, but slower onboarding and limited flexibility.
- Decentralized Management: More autonomy for teams but lack of standardization and potential security risks.
- Unified Control Plane with Federated Gateways
- The necessity of a unified control plane for managing various API gateways (e.g., AWS Gateway, WSO2 Gateway).
- Demonstration of connecting different gateways to a unified control plane.
- The need for effective API management to address various API requirements including AI APIs.
- Implementation Strategy
- Central control plane for unified traffic routing and policy enforcement across multiple API gateways.
- Importance of observability and monitoring across fragmented control planes.
- Demo
- Live demonstration of connecting and managing APIs across different gateways using WSO2.
- Showcasing Ingress and ESS API management.
- Conclusions and Key Takeaways
- Organizations moving towards a hybrid model combining centralized control with decentralized management capabilities to harness the benefits of both.
- Emphasis on continuous feedback from customers to improve API management solutions.
- Closing remarks on the evolving landscape of API management, particularly with the rise of AI and distributed systems.