APIIDA API Control Plane

How to connect to Layer7 without the Layer7 API Developer Portal

On this page you will learn step by step how to connect your Layer7 gateways to the APIIDA API Control Plane without using the Layer7 API Developer Portal.

Prerequisites

The following is required to proceed:

Prepare the Gateways

https://apiida.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AACP/pages/8098709507



Provide the Gateway Information

The following describes how to create the gateway configuration for a Layer7 Gateway Agent.

Gateway Configuration

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  • url: Insert the URL to your APIIDA API Gateway Manager

  • Environment Id: The environment ID from the APIIDA API Gateway Manager with which the environment in the APIIDA API Control Plane should match.

  • user/password: Credentials of a user of the APIIDA API Gateway Manager (Administrator)

See our Q&A below if you want to learn more about how to get these values.

  • Your configuration file will download automatically.

  • Confirm by clicking on the "Download and Next" button

You’ve completed the second step!




Q&A

  • In API Gateway Manager go to “Configuration” and choose “Environments”

  • The ID of the environments is shown in the table as depicted below