3scale API Management Reviews

3scale API Management is used for routing the internal application within the company.

To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product.

I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution.

This use case was for one of our Gulf clients, specifically in the ranking domain.

The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation. You install the operator, and then you simply create an API manager and boom, your environment is ready. The installation process is pretty good. 

3scale API Management is a containerized product, so all its parts are deployed into containers, and standard deployment is very simple because it goes on the OpenShift. The solution can be deployed on-premises or cloud and their ability to make a standard deployment is very easy on OpenShift. The solution has easy deployment and standard deployment. 

I think Red Hat is improving this issue because they are very technical. One problem that we had, again had a specific case of contractual obligations to have commercial support for all technologies that we were using, and specifically what was happening in that version of the solution that we were running. What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported. So we decided not to go with it. As much as we tried to implement 3scale API Management the incompatibility of the version did not allow us to proceed. The software could support it, but the configuration unit was not updated yet to give this kind of flexibility with support and because of this at the end of the day, we had to scrub the product.

We have a microservices architecture or our public API managed through the 3scale.

The deployment process could be easier.

We use 3scale to manage, monitor, and secure APIs and back up endpoints. 

3scale enables us to secure API access. Jobs aren't allowed to talk to the agent without the correct credentials. 

We use the solution for external service communications.

The solution can easily configure and implement any API, authentication headers and filters.

I mainly use 3scale API Management as an API management tool.

3scale API Management's best feature is API management.

The use case is that the organization I work for wanted to work with APIs but they didn't actually know what to do. They knew that it was a good thing to have an API management product. We are now trying to establish an API-first approach for both internal and external APIs, and we use it to provide financial information via APIs.

The deployment is a hybrid. We deploy the gateways in our own OpenShift cluster, provided by a vendor, but not on the cloud. And we have the RHOAM (Red Hat OpenShift API Management) solution for the management part, and that runs on AWS.

Since we introduced the gateway, the API management has given us the ability to get on top of things. It's not just the infrastructure but also the implicit organizational process. Now, things have to go through our API management team, the one that handles the API gateway. And that means we are able to get a handle on what is actually about to be designed and what is allowed to be published. That's the main benefit. The path for how something gets published in our organization has to go through the part of the organization that's actually managing the API gateway. That means we are able to discuss how to design our APIs to make sure they will be a good fit with all the other APIs that we provide.