Buying a Dedicated Gateway¶
This section describes how to buy a dedicated gateway. You can create APIs and use them to provide services only after a dedicated gateway is created.
Information on Buying a Dedicated Gateway¶
There are some limitations on buying a dedicated gateway. If you cannot buy a dedicated gateway or a gateway fails to be created, check the following items:
Gateway quota
By default, your account can be used to create five dedicated gateways in a project. To create more dedicated gateways, submit a service ticket to increase the quota.
Permissions
You must be assigned both the APIG Administrator and VPC Administrator roles.
Alternatively, you must be attached the APIG FullAccess policy.
You can also be granted permissions using custom policies. For details, see APIG Custom Policies.
Number of available private IP addresses in the subnet
The basic, professional, enterprise, and platinum editions of APIG require 3, 5, 6, and 7 private IP addresses in a subnet, respectively. Ensure that the subnet you choose has sufficient private IP addresses on the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) console.
Network Environment¶
VPC
Dedicated gateways are deployed in VPCs. Cloud resources, such as Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs), in the same VPC can call APIs using the private IP address of the dedicated gateway deployed in the VPC.
You are advised to deploy your dedicated gateways in the same VPC as your other services to facilitate network configuration and secure network access.
Note
VPCs of dedicated gateways cannot be modified.
EIP
To allow public inbound access to the APIs deployed in a dedicated gateway, buy an Elastic IP (EIP) and bind it to the dedicated gateway.
Note
For APIs whose backend services are deployed on a public network, APIG automatically generates an IP address for public outbound access and you do not need to buy an EIP.
Security group
Similar to a firewall, a security group controls access to a gateway through a specific port and transmission of communication data from the gateway to a specific destination address. For security purposes, create inbound rules for the security group to allow access only on specific ports.
The security group bound to a dedicated gateway must meet the following requirements:
Inbound access: To allow the APIs in the dedicated gateway to be accessed over public networks or from other security groups, add inbound rules for the security group to allow access on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).
Outbound access: If the backend service of an API is deployed on a public network or in another security group, add outbound rules for the security group to allow access to the backend service address through the API calling port.
If the frontend and backend services of an API are bound with the same security group and VPC as the dedicated gateway, no inbound or outbound rules are needed to allow access through the preceding ports.
Procedure¶
Log in to the management console.
In the navigation pane, choose Dedicated Gateways.
Click Buy Dedicated Gateway.
Table 1 Parameters for creating a dedicated gateway¶ Parameter
Description
Region
A geographic area where the gateway will be deployed. Deploy the gateway in the same region as your other services to allow all services to communicate with each other through subnets within a VPC. This reduces public bandwidth costs and network latency.
AZ
A physical region where resources use independent power supplies and networks. Availability zones (AZs) are physically isolated but interconnected through an internal network.
To enhance gateway availability, deploy the gateway in multiple AZs.
Gateway Name
Gateway name.
Edition
The basic, professional, enterprise, and platinum editions are available.
Scheduled Maintenance
Time period when the gateway can be maintained. The technical support personnel will contact you before maintenance.
Select a time period with low service demands.
Enterprise Project
Select an enterprise project to which the dedicated gateway belongs. This parameter is available only if your account is an enterprise account.
For details about resource usage, migration, and user permissions of enterprise projects, see Enterprise Management User Guide.
Load Balancing with ELB
Indicates whether to use ELB as a load balancer of the gateway.
After you enable this option, cross-VPC inbound access is supported. When you enable public inbound access, an EIP is automatically assigned by the gateway, and you cannot specify one.
Public Inbound Access
Determine whether to allow the APIs created in the dedicated gateway to be called by external services using an EIP. To enable this function, assign an EIP to the dedicated gateway.
Note
APIs in the dedicated gateway can be called using independent domain names or subdomain names. There is a limitation on the number of times that APIs in an API group can be called per day using the subdomain name. To overcome the limitation, bind independent domain names to the API group and ensure that the independent domain names have already been CNAMEd to the EIP of the dedicated gateway to which the API group belongs.
For example, you have an HTTPS API (path: /apidemo) with public access enabled. The API can be called using "https://{domain}/apidemo", where domain indicates an independent domain name bound to the API group to which the API belongs. The independent domain name must have already been CNAMEd to the EIP of the dedicated gateway. The default port is 443.
Public Outbound Access
Determine whether to allow backend services of the APIs created in the dedicated gateway to be deployed on public networks. If you enable this option, set a bandwidth that meets your service requirements. The bandwidth is billed by hour based on the rate of the EIP service.
Network
Select a VPC and subnet for the dedicated gateway.
Cloud resources (such as ECSs) within the same VPC can call APIs using the private IP address of the dedicated gateway.
Deploy the dedicated gateway in the same VPC as your other services to facilitate network configuration and secure network access.
Security Group
Select a security group to control inbound and outbound access.
If the backend service of an API is deployed on an external network, configure security group rules to allow access to the backend service address through the API calling port.
Note
If public inbound access is enabled, add inbound rules for the security group to allow access on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).
Description
Description of the gateway.
Click Next.
Check the gateway configurations, and click Pay Now. The gateway creation progress is displayed on the screen.
Follow-Up Operations¶
After the gateway is created, you can create and manage APIs on the console of the gateway. The Gateway Information page shows the gateway details, network configurations, API resources, and metrics.
You can modify the gateway name, description, scheduled maintenance time window, security group, and EIP.