API Gateway bridge solution

The information in this chapter applies to Infor OS 12.0.29 and later upgrades.

API Gateway bridge solution refers to deployment topologies where API Gateway and its authorized app reside in different network boundaries. For example, API Gateway running in the multi-tenant cloud and the authorized app running on premises.

These scenarios require API Gateway functionality to handle identity translation and/or user impersonation.

This image shows an authorized app accessing a multi-tenant API suite via an API Gateway proxy that has been secured using the API Gateway Bridge:

Bridge example

This image shows the steps required to set up this bridge solution:

API GatewayI Bridge Scenario - Example Configuration

Prerequisites

These prerequisites are required to set up an API Gateway bridge solution:

  • An on-premises or single-tenant API Gateway instance
  • A multi-tenant API Gateway instance
  • An API suite to be used as a proxy in the bridge solution
  • Users that exist in both a multi-tenant and single-tenant/on-premises instance with at least one user management (IFS) property that matches, for example: the multi-tenant EmailAddress matches the single-tenant/on-premises Identity2 for each user
  • API Gateway Administrator security role