In this walkthrough, we are going to look at some of the Apache APISIX API Gateway built-in plugins for securing your Spring Boot REST APIs and demonstrate how to effectively use them. By Bobur Umurzokov.
APISIX API Gateway provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more.
The article reads about:
- Overview of API Security
- The API Gateway as a gatekeeper
- How does an APISIX gateway secure your APIs
- Clone the demo repository apisix-security-java-spring from GitHub
- Understand the structure of the project and docker-compose.yaml file
- Build a multi-container APISIX via Docker CLI
- Allow only whitelisted IP address access your API with IP restriction plugin in action
- Block direct access to some API resources with Uri-blocker plugin
- Make sure that only allowed users can request your API with Consumer restriction plugin
Blog post contains also conceptual knowledge about API Security, the important role of the API gateway in handling cross-cutting concerns, and how Apache APISIX can help you to simplify and accelerate the task of securing APIs. Code examples for containers is also included. Excellent read!
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