Federation describes an approach by which Gravitee can unify APIs and event streams running on different providers into a single platform for simplified governance and an improved developer experience. The benefits of federation include:
- Providing developers with easier access to APIs that were previously inaccessible, and reducing time to access.
- Providing developers with a single, gateway-agnostic developer portal to discover and consume APIs in a unified way no matter where they are deployed
- The ability to capitalize on existing gateway and broker investments
- Centralized governance, access management and usage tracking for API governance teams.
{% hint style="warning" %} If you're hosting Gravitee yourself, then Federation is deactivated by default. To enable it, please refer to the dedicated sections in the installation guide of choice:
- enable Federation when installing with Helm on Kubernetes
- enable Federation when installing with Docker Compose
- enable Federation when installing with .zip {% endhint %}
The pages below discuss the details of federation components and processes.
| Integrations | integrations.md | ||
| Discovery | discovery.md | ||
| Federated APIs | federated-apis.md | ||
| 3rd-party providers | 3rd-party-providers |
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