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Create and expose the portal

Now that you decided on your portal configuration, you can create your developer portal and make it available to your users.

Before you begin

Deploy sample REST APIs and bundle them to API products.
Prepare usage plans.
Decide on your developer portal configuration. This guide assumes that you want to include the tracks and petstore API products in your developer portal. The tracks API is publicly available, and the petstore API is visible only if you are successfully authenticated and authorized.

Create and expose the developer portal

In this guide, you create your portal resource and expose the portal backend so that you can interact with your portal by using your terminal.

Create the developer portal. The following portal resource creates a developer portal for the developer.example.com host and includes all API products with the portal: dev-portal label. If you followed the examples in Decide on your portal configuration, the tracks and petstore API products are served by this portal resource.

kubectl apply -f- <<EOF
apiVersion: apimanagement.gloo.solo.io/v2
kind: Portal
metadata:
  name: developer-portal
  namespace: gloo-mesh-addons
spec:
  visibility:
    public: true
    privateAPILabels:
      portal-visibility: private
  domains:
    - "developer.example.com"
  portalBackendSelectors:
    - selector:
        labels:
          app: gloo-mesh-portal-server
  usagePlans:
    - name: bronze
      displayName: "Bronze Plan"
      description: "A basic usage plan"
    - name: silver
      description: "A better usage plan"
    - name: gold
      description: "The best usage plan!"
  apis:
    - labels:
        portal: dev-portal 
EOF

Verify that the internal PortalConfig resource is created for your portal. By default, this resource is created in the gloo-mesh-addons namespace.

kubectl get portalconfigs -n gloo-mesh-addons -o yaml

Example output: Notice that the stitched schema is used, as well as the portal metadata that you set in the route table.

   apiVersion: v1
   items:
   - apiVersion: internal.gloo.solo.io/v2
     kind: PortalConfig
     metadata:
       annotations:
         cluster.solo.io/cluster: cluster-1
       creationTimestamp: "2023-04-06T21:30:41Z"
       generation: 1
       labels:
         context.mesh.gloo.solo.io/cluster: cluster-1-portal
         context.mesh.gloo.solo.io/namespace: gloo-mesh-gateways
         context.mesh.gloo.solo.io/workspace: cluster-1-portal
         gloo.solo.io/parent_cluster: cluster-1-portal
         gloo.solo.io/parent_group: ""
         gloo.solo.io/parent_kind: Namespace
         gloo.solo.io/parent_name: gloo-mesh-gateways
         gloo.solo.io/parent_namespace: ""
         gloo.solo.io/parent_version: v1
         reconciler.mesh.gloo.solo.io/name: translator
       name: developer-portal-gloo-mesh-addons-cluster-1-portal
       namespace: gloo-mesh-addons
       resourceVersion: "1985686"
       uid: 59fe5508-d839-4720-b6ae-59347664e3bb
     spec:
       apis:
       - apiSchema:
           cluster: cluster-1-portal
           name: tracks-rt-stitched-openapi-cluster-1-portal-gloo-mesh-gateways-cluster-1-portal
           namespace: gloo-mesh-addons
         contact: support@example.com
         description: REST API for Catstronauts to retrieve data for tracks, authors
        and modules.
         license: license info
         routeTable:
           cluster: cluster-1-portal
           name: tracks-rt
           namespace: gloo-mesh-gateways
         termsOfService: You must authenticate to use this API! And other Terms of Service.
         title: Catstronauts REST API
       - apiSchema:
           cluster: cluster-1-portal
           name: petstore-rt-stitched-openapi-cluster-1-portal-gloo-mesh-gateways-cluster-1-portal
           namespace: gloo-mesh-addons
         contact: support@example.com
         description: Totally awesome API for all things pets!
         license: license info
         routeTable:
           cluster: cluster-1-portal
           name: petstore-rt
           namespace: gloo-mesh-gateways
         termsOfService: You must authenticate to use this API! And other Terms of Service.
         title: Petstore REST API
       domains:
       - developer.example.com
       portalRef:
         cluster: cluster-1-portal
         name: developer-portal
         namespace: gloo-mesh-addons
       public: true
   kind: List
   metadata:
     resourceVersion: ""
     selfLink: ""

Create a virtual gateway that you use to expose the developer portal. The following example selects the default ingress gateway that you deployed during your Gloo Platform installation.

kubectl apply -f- <<EOF
apiVersion: networking.gloo.solo.io/v2
kind: VirtualGateway
metadata:
  name: istio-ingressgateway-portal
  namespace: gloo-mesh-gateways
spec:
  listeners:
    - allowedRouteTables:
        - host: developer.example.com
      http: {}
      port:
        number: 80
  workloads:
    - selector:
        cluster: $CLUSTER_NAME
        labels:
          istio: ingressgateway
EOF

Create a route table for the developer portal. The following route table creates routes for all the portal APIs so that you can interact with your developer portal.

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF    
apiVersion: networking.gloo.solo.io/v2
kind: RouteTable
metadata:
  name: dev-portal-rt
  namespace: gloo-mesh-gateways
spec:
  hosts:
  - developer.example.com
  virtualGateways:
   - name: istio-ingressgateway-portal
     namespace: gloo-mesh-gateways
  defaultDestination:
    port:
      number: 8080
    ref:
      name: gloo-mesh-portal-server
      namespace: gloo-mesh-addons
  http:
  - matchers:
    - uri: 
        prefix: /v1/api-keys
    - uri: 
        prefix: /v1/me
    - uri: 
        prefix: /v1/apis
    - uri: 
        prefix: /v1/usage-plans
    forwardTo: {}
EOF

Send a request to the developer portal to list the APIs that you have access to. Note that because the petstore API is set to private, only the tracks API is returned in your CLI output. To view the private petstore APIs, you must set up authentication and authorization. For more information, see Secure the portal.

curl -vik --resolve developer.example.com:80:$INGRESS_GW_IP http://developer.example.com:80/v1/apis

Example output:

* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: application/json
content-type: application/json
< date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:57:02 GMT
date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:57:02 GMT
< content-length: 387
content-length: 387
< x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 0
x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 0
< server: istio-envoy
server: istio-envoy

< 
[{"apiId":"tracks-rt-gloo-mesh-gateways-portal","contact":"support@example.com","customMetadata":null,"description":"REST API for Catstronauts to retrieve data for tracks, authors and modules.","license":"license info","termsOfService":"You must authenticate to use this API! And other Terms of Service.","title":"Catstronauts REST API","usagePlans":["silver","gold","bronze"]}]
* Connection #0 to host developer.example.com left intact

The /me and /api-keys paths are protected even if you set API product visibility to public. These API paths cannot be accessed until a user is authenticated with an OIDC provider. For more information, see Set up external authentication.

Next steps

You can continue to use your portal in several ways:

Create a frontend for the developer portal.
Secure the portal, either along your backend or frontend routes.

When you are done with trying out Portal, you can clean up all of the resources that you created.