Task 5 - Deploy your Cloud Data Plane and add your first API

Introduction

Your onboarding is now complete! The next step will be to setup a very basic API to demonstrate how APIs are managed within Tyk Cloud.

Steps to add an API in Tyk Cloud

• Step 1 - 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 2 - Add a New API: Click the APIs menu item and then click Add New API.

• Step 3 - 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 4 - Advanced Options:

  1. Click the Advanced Options tab of the API Designer.
  2. Scroll to the Segment Tags (Node Segmentation) setting and add the cloud data plane tag (edge) you saw when creating the Cloud Data Plane.

• Step 5 - Save Your API: Click Save from the API Designer. Your API will now be added to the APIs list and as the next step you’ll access your API from the Gateway Ingress.

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

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