Chapter 1. Executive Summary

APIs are the building blocks of the digital economy. Because they are key to seizing business value, you need a world-class API infrastructure that delivers now and into the future.

Red Hat® 3scale API Management Platform makes it easy to manage your APIs for internal or external users. Share, secure, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs on an infrastructure platform built with performance, customer control, and future growth in mind. And now, with the release of 3scale API Management Platform 2, you can place any 3scale components on-premise, in the cloud, or on any combination of the two.

Refer to the official Red Hat documentation for more introduction on API use cases.

This reference architecture describes the on-premise installation of Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform on OpenShift Container Platform and demonstrates important capabilities of the product by enhancing the functionality of an existing E-Commerce application through the introduction of an API gateway.