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The API gateway (API-GW) is pretty straightforward to use. It listens to a given port and handles API requests. The default way of running API-GW is without TLS. In production it is recommended to run with TLS (HTTPS).
API-GW will start by waiting for connection towards NATS, once connected it will continue.
API-GW can be scaled out and requests can then be load-balanced between them.
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install varnish-controller-api-gw
# RPM-based
sudo dnf install varnish-controller-api-gw
To start the API-GW with TLS specify they key and cert for the TLS certificate. Additionally specify a
port to listen on.
varnish-controller-api-gw -http-port 443 -key server_tls.key -cert server_tls.crt -tls
When API-GW has been started the OpenAPI(Swagger) documentation can be viewed on http://server:port/docs/.
There are some configuration parameters that could be tuned to change how the api-gw process operate. These might not be self-explanatory and are described below.
Note: Do not change these parameters if you are not sure about the implications.
-compile-timeout <duration>VARNISH_CONTROLLER_COMPILE_TIMEOUTWhen a VCLGroup is deployed OR validated it’s given VCL files will be compiled. This is a process that can take some time depending on the size of the
VCL files. This setting should be set larger than the maximum time it takes to compile used VCL files. If this is set to low, timeout will occur between
both agent and brainz and also for the REST API calls for functions that compile the VCL files. This should also be configured with the same
value for brainz. (default 1m0s)
--helpThe varnish-controller-api-gw provides a full list of parameters with --help and then exit.