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The topics in this section walk you through the steps to quickly configure and test the following:

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If you want to run the Microgateway on Docker, see Deploying the Microgateway as a Docker Container

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Prerequisites

To download and run the Microgateway: 

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  • Ensure that you have the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) installed. You can install either OpenJDK 8 or Oracle JDK 1.8.*.

    Note
    titleImportant!

    WSO2 recommends installing JDK 8u161 or later.

  • Be sure that you meet the following system requirements:

    Physical
    • 3 GHz Dual-core Xeon/Opteron (or latest)
    • 4 GB RAM (2 GB for JVM and 2 GB for the operating system)
    • 10 GB free disk space
    • ~ Recommended minimum - 2 Cores.
    Tip

    For high concurrencies and better performance you can use 4 Cores.

    Disk space is based on the expected storage requirement calculated by considering file uploads and backup policies.

    Virtual Machine (VM)
    • 2 compute units minimum (each unit having 1.0-1.2 GHz Opteron/Xeon processor)
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 10 GB free disk space
    • One CPU unit for the operating system and one for JVM.

    ~ 512 MB heap size. This is generally sufficient to process typical SOAP messages but the requirements vary with larger message sizes and the number of messages processed concurrently.

    EC2
    • One c5.large instance to run one Microgateway instance.


Download a Microgateway instance

  1. Log in to WSO2 API Cloud (https://api.cloud.wso2.com) as an admin user.

  2. On the API Publisher, click Microgateways.

  3. Click DOWNLOAD MICROGATEWAY to start the download.

    Once the Microgateway download completes, you can configure the Microgateway deployment depending on your use case.


Configure the Microgateway deployment

Depending on your requirement you can either quickly try out the basic single node Microgateway deployment for testing purposes, or you can try out a production level high availability deployment.

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titleClick here for instructions on how to configure a single node On-Prem Gateway deployment:
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titleTip

Let’s refer to the Microgateway download location as <MICROGATEWAY_HOME> throughout this section.

  1. Navigate to <MICROGATEWAY_HOME>/bin, and execute the following command to start configuring the Microgateway:
    On Windows: cloud-init.bat --run
    On Linux/Mac OS: sh cloud-init.sh
    This allows you to configures the downloaded Microateway with the settings required to integrate with API Cloud.
  2. Provide your email address, organization key, and password.
    Your organization key will be displayed as shown below.

    The status of the Microgateway will be displayed on completion.
  3. Navigate to <MICROGATEWAY_HOME>/bin, and execute the following command to run the start up script:
    On Windows: wso2server.bat --run
    On Linux/Mac OS: sh wso2server.sh
    The Microgateway status will be updated when it starts.

Now you have configured a single Microgateway instance. Next let's test the deployment.

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titleClick here for instructions on how to configure a production level high availability deployment scenario:
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In this high availability deployment you will have two Microgateway instances running on two nodes fronted by a load balancer as depicted in the following diagram:

Here, we will use NGINX is used as the load balancer.

  1. Be sure to download and run two Microgateway instances on two different nodes. Let’s refer to each Microgateway download location as <MICROGATEWAY_HOME> throughout this section.

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    titleClick here for detailed instructions on how to run the two On-Prem Gateway instances:

    Follow the steps below for each Microgateway instance that you downloaded.

    Note
    titleNote

    We do not recommend running two Microgateway instances on a single node for production level high availability deployments.

    1. Navigate to <MICROGATEWAY_HOME>/bin, and execute the following command to start configuring the Microgateway:
      On Windows: cloud-init.bat --run
      On Linux/Mac OS: sh cloud-init.sh
      This allows you to configure the downloaded Microgateway with the settings required to integrate with API Cloud.
    2. Provide your email address, organization key, and password.
      Your organization key will be displayed as shown below.

      The status of the Microgateway will be displayed on completion.
    3. Navigate to <MICROGATEWAY_HOME>/bin, and execute the following command to run the start up script:
      On Windows: wso2server.bat --run
      On Linux/Mac OS: sh wso2server.sh
      The Microgateway status will be updated when it starts.
  2. Install NGINX in a server configured in your cluster. For instructions on installing NGINX, see installing NGINX community version.
  3. Follow the steps below to create a SSL certificate for NGINX.
    1. Create the server key.

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      sudo openssl genrsa -des3 -out <key_name>.key 1024
    2. Submit the certificate signing request (CSR).

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      sudo openssl req -new -key <key_name>.key -out server.csr
    3. Remove the password.

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      sudo cp <key_name>.key <key_name>.key.org 
      sudo openssl rsa -in <key_name>.key.org -out <key_name>.key
    4. Sign your SSL certificate.

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      sudo openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey <key_name>.key -out <certificate_name>.crt
    5. Copy the key and certificate files that you generated above to the /etc/nginx/ssl/ location.

  4. Configure NGINX to direct HTTP and HTTPS requests based on your deployment.

    1. Run the following command to identify the exact location of the <NGINX_HOME> directory. 

      Code Block
       nginx -V

      Inspect the output to identify the --prefix tag that provides the location of the <NGINX_HOME> directory.

    2. Update the ngnix.conf file with the required NGINX configuration given below. Alternatively, you can create a file with the .conf suffix and copy it to the <NGINX_HOME>/conf.d directory.

      Note
      titleNote the following with regard to the sample configuration below:
      • /etc/nginx/conf.d/hybrid_gateway_upstream.conf is the NGINX configuration file name.
      • Placeholders <IP1> and <IP2> represent the IP addresses of Microgateway node 1 and node 2 respectively.
      • gateway.foo.com is the domain of the certificate you created in step 2 above. Note that the DNS should be mapped to the NGINX public IP. If you do not do the mapping, the client will have to add an entry in /etc/hosts to resolve the domain name.
      • The key and the certificate for SSL is assumed to be in the <NGINX_HOME>/ssl/ location. The placeholders <cert.pem> and <key.pem> represent the generated certificate file and key file.
      • /etc/nginx/log/wso2_hybrid_gateway/https/ is the directory used for access logs. You need create the directory if it does not exist.
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      /etc/nginx/conf.d/hybrid_gateway_upstream.conf 
      upstream gateway_https {
          server <IP1>:8243;
          server <IP2>:8243;
      } 
      
      
      server {
          listen 80;
          server_name gateway.foo.com;
          rewrite ^/(.*) https://gateway_https/$1 permanent;
      }
       
      server {
          listen 443;
          server_name gateway.foo.com;
          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port 443;
          ssl on;
          ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/<cert.pem>;
          ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/<key.pem>;
          location / {
                     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
                     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
                     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                     proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                     proxy_read_timeout 5m;
                     proxy_send_timeout 5m;
                     proxy_pass https://gateway_https;
              }
       
              access_log /etc/nginx/log/wso2_hybrid_gateway/https/access.log;
              error_log /etc/nginx/log/wso2_hybrid_gateway/https/error.log;
      }
    3. Execute the following command to restart the NGINX server:

      Tip

      You do not need to restart the server if you are simply making a modification to the VHost file. The following command is sufficient in such cases.

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      sudo service nginx reload
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      sudo service nginx restart

Now you have configured the high availability deployment. Next let's test the deployment.


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Test the deployment

Follow the steps below to test your Microgateway deployment:

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