Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of an update to Layer7 API Management, with the releases of Layer7 API Gateway v10, Layer7 API Developer Portal v4.5, and Layer7 API Management OAuth Toolkit (OTK) v4.4. The new set of releases offers enhancements to the product set in multiple dimensions:
Enhanced API security and lifecycle management
- Granular control over API Management – to enable enterprise collaboration and empower individual teams. Portal admins can now assign a user as an "Org Publisher" to grant them API publishing permissions within their organization
- Federated deployment of APIs and API Keys - APIs can now be deployed on API Proxies assigned within the scope of the organizations managing those APIs. Portal Admins can assign organizations to API Proxies, limiting deployment of the organization's APIs to only the Proxies allocated for that organization. Similarly, deployment of API Keys can be more tightly controlled (via Portal API) with the ability to choose their target deployment Proxies
- Customizable API documentation - Portal admins, API Owners, or Org Publishers can now add markdown content as API documents to provide more business context about the API and include other information such as use cases, usage guidelines, and performance details
- Custom analytics and reporting - for additional flexibility in reviewing API metrics and data visualization. New capabilities provide granular drill downs such as for Proxies, Response Codes, URI patterns
- New communication/messaging protocols support - for HTTP/2, Kafka, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
- Enhanced configurability of log properties - enabling improved management of message queues and connections
- Enhancements to policy assertions - including SSH2, ICAP-enabled Antivirus, OpenAPI document assertions
- Hashing of API secrets - to further improve the security of the application's client secret, it is now possible to configure Portal to store the shared secret hashed. This is in addition to existing capability to encrypt client secrets
- API Tagging - Administrators can now associate tags to an API. Tagging makes it easy for API consumers to do advanced API taxonomy and discovery
- Improved UI and workflows - to streamline portal user experience
Advanced platform support
- With support for CentOS8, RHEL8, Oracle DB 19c, MySQL 8.0, and Kubernetes 1.11 based container management platforms.
Details on the complete set of features are available in product release notes:
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