Task 5 - Deploy your Edge Gateway and add your first API

Introduction

Now that you have completed onboarding you will setup a very basic API to demonstrate how APIs are managed within Tyk Cloud.

Step One - Access the Dashboard

Go to the Control Plane overview and click the dashboard link in the Ingress list. You’ll be redirected to the Tyk Dashboard for your Control Plane.

Step Two - Add a New API

Watch our video on Adding an API to your Tyk Cloud Dashboard.

Click the APIs menu item and then click Add New API.

Step Three - Core Settings

1. Give Your API a name - We’ll use “my app” for the rest of this Getting Started journey.
2. Scroll down to the Target URL setting and use the URL https://httpbin.org/
3. Then scroll down to the Authentication section and select Open(Keyless) to keep things simple for this demo.

Step Four - Advanced Options

1. Click the Advanced Options tab of the API Designer.
2. Scroll to the Segment Tags (Node Segmentation) setting and add the edge tag (edge) you saw when creating the Edge Gateway.

How Segment Tags work in Tyk Cloud

When an Edge Gateway is deployed, the tag ’edge’ and a location tag are automatically generated for the Edge Gateway. You use these tags to connect your API to the appropriate Edge Gateway. It works as follows:

• Add the edge tag to your API to connect it to all Edge Gateways within the Control Plane.
• Add the location tag to your API to connect it to only Edge Gateways with that location within the Control Plane.

Step Five - Save Your API

Click Save from the API Designer. Your API will now be added to the APIs list.

Next you’ll access your API from the Gateway Ingress.

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