This section describes how to configure and use the APIIDA API Gateway Manager. You learn how to configure a Gateway Manager instance and how to prepare your Layer7 API Gateways.

The following terms are used throughout this section:

• "Gateway Manager" refers to APIIDA API Gateway Manager

• "Gateway" refers to the Layer7 API Gateway by CA Technologies (a Broadcom company)

• "Policy Manager" refers to the Layer7 API Gateway Policy Manager

Audience and Assumptions

These instructions are intended for facility coordinators, security managers, and other IT infrastructure staff familiar with:

• The hardware and software infrastructure that will be used with the APIIDA API Gateway Manager or Layer7 API Management products, such as firewalls, Layer 2 or Layer 3 switches, routers, Load Balancers, databases, identity management or access control systems, application servers, and more.

• Advanced TCP-IP and internet working concepts, web services, and user management knowledge.

• (For Docker-based installation) Advanced knowledge of the host operating system.