Deploying Choreo Connect on Kubernetes With WSO2 API Manager as a Control Plane

Let's deploy an API on Choreo Connect, which running on Kubernetes, with WSO2 API Manager as the Control Plane.

Before you begin

  1. Install kubectl.
  2. Set up a Kubernetes cluster v1.20 or above.
    • Minimum CPU : 4vCPU
    • Minimum Memory : 3GB
  3. Deploy an ingress controller - NGINX Ingress Controller for this sample.

Note

If you are using Rancher Desktop, disable the default Traefik ingress controller in order to deploy the Nginx ingress controller.

Refer Rancher Docs for more information

Objectives

  1. Create and deploy an API project.
  2. Invoke the API using a generated key.

Let's get started...

Step 1 - Setup Choreo Connect in Kubernetes

  1. Download and extract Choreo Connect distribution .zip file

    Latest Choreo Connect distribution can be downloaded from https://wso2.com/choreo/choreo-connect/. Extract the Choreo Connect distribution .zip file. The extracted folder will be called as CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME hereafter.

  2. Add the Kubernetes configurations for Choreo Connect and API Manager using the kubectl tool.

    Click here if you are using an ARM64 based machine (e.g., Apple M1)

    If you are trying out in ARM64 based machine (e.g., Apple M1) update the Docker image names with the following in

    • Kubernetes deployment.yaml files
      • <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect/adapter-deployment.yaml
      • <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect/choreo-connect-deployment.yaml
      • <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect-with-apim/apim/apim-deployment.yaml
      • <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect-with-apim/choreo-connect/adapter-deployment.yaml
      • <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect-with-apim/choreo-connect/choreo-connect-deployment.yaml
    Existing (Default) image name Image name for tryout in ARM64 (e.g.: Apple M1)
    wso2/choreo-connect-adapter:1.0.0 wso2/choreo-connect-adapter:1.0.0-ubuntu
    wso2/choreo-connect-enforcer:1.0.0 wso2/choreo-connect-enforcer:1.0.0-ubuntu
    wso2/choreo-connect-router:1.0.0 wso2/choreo-connect-router:1.0.0-ubuntu
    wso2/wso2am:4.0.0-alpine wso2am/wso2am:4.0.0-ubuntu

    Note:
    Note that the above Ubuntu based (*-ubuntu) images are for tryout purpose only, not recommended for a production deployment.

    kubectl apply -f <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect-with-apim/apim

    Apply Kubernetes configurations for Choreo Connect after successfully started the API Manager instance.

    kubectl apply -f <CHOREO-CONNECT_HOME>/k8s-artifacts/choreo-connect-with-apim/choreo-connect

  3. Add the host entry to the /etc/hosts file.

    Add the following entry to /etc/hosts file in order to access the Choreo Connect Router, API Manager publisher and Developer Portal.

    <ingress_address>    gw.wso2.com    apim.wso2.com

Step 2 - Deploy Sample API from API Manager

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