[Apiman-user] Apiman & Elasticsearch

[Eric Wittmann]

Hi Stéphane.

Yes, it is possible to run apiman without using Elasticsearch at all. 
You mentioned that you already replaced ES with mysql for the gateway 
registry.  There are several other components as well, including 
metrics.  We have documentation for metrics here:

http://www.apiman.io/latest/installation-guide.html#_how_to_use_a_sql_database_to_store_and_retrieve_metrics_replacing_elasticsearch

In addition, here is an example apiman.properties config that uses 
alternatives for everything (Gateway only):

https://gist.github.com/EricWittmann/822911517aa357b8c8c94c3ec79a32f3

Note that several of the components use Infinispan instead of 
elasticsearch.  In order to use the Infinispan components you'll need to 
be using Wildfly *and* also add the following in your 
standalone-apiman.xml file (in the right spot in that file):

https://gist.github.com/EricWittmann/437432397f03270737d9fbd9bdadeaea

There are other choices for these components, but currently only the 
Elasticsearch and Infinispan implementations support multiple gateway 
nodes.  If you're just running a single Gateway node, you could use the 
in-memory implementations of these components (although you would lose 
state if the server was restarted).

As for production references, I'm sorry to say that we don't really 
solicit that information in the community.  However I have CC'd this 
response on the apiman users mailing list so perhaps someone will raise 
a hand and describe their production experience. :)

-Eric



On 8/31/2016 1:30 PM, Stéphane Riegel  wrote:
> Hi Eric,
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> I was interested on apiman opensource project and had a look on the
> configuration part and have two questions:
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> Is it a way to not use elasticsearch at all on the project (gateway,
> metrics,  rate …) ? Are there alternatives backend like MySQL for all
> these elasticsearch features. I succeed to replace the gateway
> information with MySQL but not all others features (metrics, rate …).
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> Do you know if this project has some references in production?
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> Thanks a lot.
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> Best regards,
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> Stéphane
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