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Configuring an Active-Active Deployment

This page walks you through how to manually configure WSO2 API Manager (WSO2 API-M) with two active nodes that each has all the components of the API-M together in one instance (all-in-one instance).

Follow the instructions below to configure and deploy API-M by using an Active-Active deployment:

• Step 1 - Create a SSL Certificate
• Step 2 - Configure the Load Balancer
• Step 3 - Configure the Databases
• Step 4 - Configure the Second WSO2 API-M Node
• Step 5 - Configure the Artifact Synchronization
• Step 6 - Configure Publisher with the Gateway
• Step 7 - Configure Gateway URLs to Expose APIs
• Step 8 - Configure Throttling
• Step 9 - Optionally, enable distributed cache invalidation
• Step 10 - Configure API-M Analytics
• Step 11 - Configure Production Hardening
• Step 12 - Start the WSO2 API-M Servers

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Step 1 - Create a SSL Certificate

Info

All WSO2 products are by default shipped with a keystore file and truststore file stored in the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/resources/security/ directory. The default keystore that is shipped with a WSO2 product, wso2carbon.jks is configured with private key and self signed public key pair for all purposes, such as encrypting sensitive information, communicating over SSL etc.

In a production setup, it is advised to set up several different keystores with separate trust chains for different use cases. For more information, see Recommendations for setting up keystores in WSO2 products.

To create an all purpose keystore or multiple keystores for authentication and protection of data, follow the steps in Creating New Keystores.

Tip

You should use the same keystore and truststore for SSL in both WSO2 API-M instances.

Step 2 - Configure the Load Balancer

In order to access the WSO2 API-M Portals and Gateway, you need to front the system with a load balancer. You can use any load balancer that is available to your system.

Follow the steps in Configuring the Proxy Server and the Load Balancer to configure the load balancer/reverse proxy which is fronting the API-M nodes in the demiliterized zone (DMZ).

Tip

For example, if you are using the hostname api.am.wso2.com is used to access all portals (publisher, store, admin, and carbon) and gw.am.wso2.com is used to invoke APIs, the deployment.toml in <API-M_HOME>/repository/conf directory of both nodes, should have the following reverse proxy configurations.

NOTE : Following is a sample configuration. Therefore parameter values might be different.

[server]
hostname = "api.am.wso2.com"
[transport.https.properties]
proxyPort = 443

Step 3 - Configure the Databases

The WSO2AM_DB and WSO2SHARED_DB databases need to be shared between the two API-M nodes. It is recommended to use an industry-standard RDBMS databases for this purpose. For more information on default databases and changing them into RDBMS databases, see Working with Databases.

Tip

If you have configured the apim and shared databases correctly, the deployment.toml in <API-M_HOME>/repository/conf directory, should have the following configurations.

NOTE : Following is a sample configuration for MySQL 8.0. Therefore parameter values might be different.

[database.apim_db]
type = "mysql"
url = "jdbc:mysql://mysql.wso2.com:3306/WSO2AM_DB?useSSL=false"
username = "wso2carbon"
password = "wso2carbon"
driver="com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver"

[database.shared_db]
type = "mysql"
url = "jdbc:mysql://mysql.wso2.com:3306/WSO2SHARED_DB?useSSL=false"
username = "wso2carbon"
password = "wso2carbon"
driver="com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver"

Step 4 - Configure the Second WSO2 API-M Node

Make a copy of the active instance configured above and use this copy as the second active instance.

Info

When making a copy of the node, you need to also make a copy of the SSL certificate that you created for node 1 in step 1.

Step 5 - Configure the Artifact Synchronization

To enable synchronization for runtime artifacts of the two all in one WSO2 API-M instances, it is recommended to have a shared file system. Configure a shared file system as the content synchronization mechanism. You can use a common shared file system such as Network File System (NFS) or any other shared file system that is available. 

You need to mount the following folders of the two nodes to the shared file system, in order to share the resources between all the nodes.

1. <API-M_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/userstores - If a secondary user store has been configured in the super tenant, this folder needs to be backed up.
2. <API-M_HOME>/repository/tenants - If tenancy is used and any secondary userstores are configured for the tenants.

NFS configuration

For more information on setting up NFS on Ubuntu, see Network File System (NFS). Note that these configurations may change depending on the OS.

Step 6 - Configure Publisher with the Gateway

When underlined file system is shared, the artifacts are available to both Gateway nodes. Therefore, a single node can publish the API artifacts to their own nodes. Therefore, you can point the service_url to localhost in the deployment.toml of both nodes.

[[apim.gateway.environment]]
...
service_url = "https://localhost:${mgt.transport.https.port}/services/"
...

Step 7 - Configure Gateway URLs to Expose APIs

You need to configure the environment URLs which are used to expose the deployed APIs in the Gateways of both nodes. Add the Gateway hostname when you configure environments in the <API-M_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml file in both API-M nodes. 

Update the endpoints with your chosen hostname for Gateways as shown below. In this case, let's use gw.am.wso2.com as the hostname.

[[apim.gateway.environment]]
...
ws_endpoint = "ws://gw.am.wso2.com:9099"
wss_endpoint = "wss://gw.am.wso2.com:8099"
http_endpoint = "http://gw.am.wso2.com:${http.nio.port}"
https_endpoint = "https://gw.am.wso2.com:${https.nio.port}"

Step 8 - Configure Throttling

1. Configure the data publisher in the apim.throttling.url_group section which comes under the apim.throttling.url_group block in the <API-M_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml file of both nodes.

   1. You need to update these configurations so that the Gateway can publish data to the Traffic Manager in its own node and the Traffic Manager in the other node, so that the same event is sent to both servers at the same time. 

      The WSO2 Complex Event Processor (WSO2 CEP) component that lies within the Traffic Manager acts as the data receiver and processes the data to come up with Throttling decisions.

      Node1

      Format

      [apim.throttling]
      event_duplicate_url = ["tcp://<node2-hostname>:<node2-port>"]
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://<node1-hostname>:<node1-port>"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://<node1-hostname>:<node1-port>"]
      type = "loadbalance"
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://<node2-hostname>:<node2-port>"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://<node2-hostname>:<node2-port>"]
      type = "loadbalance"

      Example

      [apim.throttling]
      event_duplicate_url = ["tcp://127.0.0.1:5673"]
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://127.0.0.1:9611"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://127.0.0.1:9711"]
      type = "loadbalance"
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://127.0.0.1:9612"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://127.0.0.1:9712"]
      type = "loadbalance"

      Node2

      Format

      [apim.throttling]
      event_duplicate_url = ["tcp://<node1-hostname>:<node1-port>"]
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://<node1-hostname>:<node1-port>"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://<node1-hostname>:<node1-port>"]
      type = "loadbalance"
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://<node2-hostname>:<node2-port>"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://<node2-hostname>:<node2-port>"]
      type = "loadbalance"

      Example

      [apim.throttling]
      event_duplicate_url = ["tcp://127.0.0.1:5672"]
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://127.0.0.1:9611"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://127.0.0.1:9711"]
      type = "loadbalance"
      
      [[apim.throttling.url_group]]
      traffic_manager_urls = ["tcp://127.0.0.1:9612"]
      traffic_manager_auth_urls = ["ssl://127.0.0.1:9712"]
      type = "loadbalance"

   2. Save your changes.

Step 9 - Optionally, enable distributed cache invalidation

Add following configuration block in the <API-M_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml file of both the nodes.

[apim.cache_invalidation]
enabled = true

Step 10 - Configure API-M Analytics

API Manager Analytics is delivered via the API Manager Analytics cloud solution. You need to configure the API Manager Gateway to publish analytics data into the cloud.

See the instructions on configuring the API Gateway with the cloud-based analytics solution.

Step 11 - Configure Production Hardening

In a production setup, ensure that you have taken into account the respective security hardening factors (e.g., changing and encrypting the default passwords, configuring JVM security etc.) and other production deployment guidelines (e.g., tuning parameters, backup and recovery recommendations etc.) before deploying WSO2 API-M nodes.

For more information on security hardening guidelines, see Security Guidelines for Production Deployment.

For more information on other production deployment guidelines, see Production Deployment Guidelines.

Step 12 - Start the WSO2 API-M Servers

Start the WSO2 API-M servers using the standard start-up script. For more information, see Starting the server.

Linux/Mac OS

cd <API-M_HOME>/bin/
sh api-manager.sh

Windows

cd <API-M_HOME>\bin\
api-manager.bat --run 

Info

If you want to deploy WSO2 API-M using a hybrid active-active deployment pattern, where WSO2 Identity Server is used as the Key Manager in high availability mode while the rest of the WSO2 API-M components are all in one node, configure and start the Key Manager (e.g., configure and start WSO2 Identity Server as the Key Manager) before starting the API-M servers.

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