[Apiman-user] Apiman & Loadbalancer F5 !

[Charles Moulliard]

Hi,

If I use a loadbalancer (= F5) exposing a physical IP address (= routed 
on internet) and calling one of our endpoints (REST, ...) running into 
different integration servers (Fuse + Camel), can we design such topology ?

We setup an Apiman Manager  (Front + ElasticSearch Database) to define 
the plans, services, roles, policies of all the endpoints which are 
running into different Fuse Servers. As the mapping between the incoming 
request and the endpoint is managed by the Apiman Gateway, I'm thinking 
to install one Apiman Gateway / Fuse Server.
Is it doable ?

Client --> 192.168.1.1 (IP Address of the Server replying to a REST 
Service) "Loadbalancer F5" --> NAT --> address of the gateway (= 
10.0.2.1) managing the mapping between the request and the physical 
endpoint --> Camel REST Endpoint (10.0.1.1). The Apiman Manager could 
run internally on this addess (10.0.2.100).

To support high availability or workload distribution, it will be 
required that at least each Camel REST / Web Service runs into multiple 
instances of Fuse Servers. That means that their IP address will be 
different (A REST service will be deployed on 10.0.1.1, 10.0.1.2, 
10.0.1.3, ...).

Question : As the GUI interface of the Apiman Manager to encode the 
address of the endpoint to map proposes one field (and no more if we 
would like to distribute the requests to different servers), is there a 
possibility to define a 1 to many relation into ApiMan Server (maybe if 
we develop such a feature) or do I have also to install an Apiman 
Manager / Gateway per Fuse Server and to encode the same info (plans, 
services, ...) excepted the IP address of the server which is different ?

Regards,

Charles