Create API Products and Plans

Introduction

When integrating with Tyk, the Tyk policies will be imported into the Developer Portal. Depending on the configuration that’s been set in the policy section, the policy will either be imported as an API Product or a Plan. For further details check the portal key concepts document.

• A Tyk Self-Managed installation
• Tyk Self-Managed added as a provider
• Have APIs [created in your Tyk installation](//tyk.io/docs/nightly/getting-started/create-api/.

Create and import an API Product from Tyk

API Products are partitioned policies that provide an ACL but not quota/rate limits. The following steps explain how to create and import an API product from Tyk, assuming you have one or more APIs already created:

1. From your Tyk Self-Managed installation, go to Policies and click Add policy.

2. Select which APIs you want to add to your API product.

   

3. From the Access Rights drop-down list, select one or more APIs to include in your policy.

   

4. Under Global limits and Quota, select Enforce access rights. Ensure Enforce usage quota and Enforce rate limit are not selected.

   

5. From the Configurations tab, add the information needed under name and settings.

6. From the Tags tab, a tag can be added to tell the portal this should be imported. If you have specified a specific label in the Provider section within the Developer portal when adding Tyk, the way the portal would know which Policies to import can be specified here.

   

7. To import the API Products into the Developer portal, from the Tyk Portal admin app, click Synchronise.

   

Create and import plans from Tyk

Plans are policies that implement rate limit or quota, or both, but do NOT include the ACL. To create a Plan for the developer portal, follow the same steps as for creating an API Product. However, within the Global limits and quota in the Policies, configure the policy as follows:

1. From your Tyk Self-Managed installation, go to Policies and click Add policy.

   

2. Select an API. Please note that this a required field. The purpose of the policy explained in this guide is to control allowance, so you can select any API here.

3. Under Global limits and Quota, select Enforce usage quota and Enforce rate limit. Ensure Disable rate-limiting and Unlimited requests are not selected so you can set these limits.

   

4. Click Synchronise to import the plans into the Developer portal, from the Tyk Portal admin app.

   

Next step

Visit Customize visual appearance of API Products and Plans to learn how to customize the visual appearance of API Products and plans.