Cloud-native API Administration with Red Hat 3scale API Management

APIcast is an nginx-based gateway in Red Hat 3scale API Management that is responsible for receiving and managing the incoming traffic of your APIs.

3scale API Management provides two environments: staging and production. By default, 3scale API Management provides an APIcast gateway for each of these environments.

You can replace any of the default gateways (staging and production) with your self-managed gateway.

Policies enable higher flexibility and control in how APIcast handles traffic by providing more-granular abstractions for the NGINX proxy configuration.

Configured policies exist within a product as part of a policy chain, which is an ordered list of policies that every request to the product is filtered through.