One of the unique features of Gloo Portal is its architecture. You can use the same Kubernetes and Gloo custom resources to design and secure your portal as you use for the rest of your setup. This flexible architecture lets you reuse existing configuration to manage all parts of your API microservices more consistently. Review the following demo setup and sample request flow diagrams to learn more about the Gloo Portal architecture.

Demo setup architecture

Review the following demo setup to understand more about the various resources that you create to put together a developer portal.

Figure: Demo setup resources
Demo setup resources

Example request flow

Review the following example request flow from an end user of the developer portal to your backing APIs.

Figure: Example request flow sequence diagram
Example request flow sequence diagram