Chris Phillips’ Blog - API, Integration and Governance

This is error message is a common issue when using DataPower with the web mgmt interface enabled

[0x8120002f][ssl][error] ssl-server(webgui-ssl): SSL library error: error:14094416:SSL
    routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown
[0x8120002f][ssl][error] ssl-server(webgui-ssl): SSL library error: error:140940E5:SSL
    routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ssl handshake failure

Custom Resource Definitions are custom data types in Kubernetes. For a project I am working on (that will be posted soon i hope) I created three CRDs and read/write/update them from a Go Application. The instructions on how to do this with out using a complex code generator was hard to find.

The API Gateway can be placed in a DMZ or it can be placed behind the DMZ with a reverse proxy in front of it. Here we will discuss the pros and cons regarding each option.

HPA Policies provide a way to scale out Kubernetes pods when the CPU utilisation for that pod reaches a predefined threshold.

be back soon

This blog has not been updated for a while as I am sitting by a pool with no laptop or iPad.

Just an iPhone SE and a broken keybaord

During npm install you my recieve an Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: like below. In order to get around this you must install librdkafka.

“IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput message bus built with Apache Kafka. It is optimized for event ingestion into IBM Cloud and event stream distribution between your services and applications” Taken from https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/event-streams

Today I sat down and installed Bind9 to act as a local DNS server. As this took me far to long I have attached a config similar to my home one explaining the changes I made from the default.

Today I updated the API Connect WhitePaper to 1.0.9 with some very minor changes. This can be downloaded from the same location as before, https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/30YERA2R

When designing your enterprise API Connect environment there are a number of different patterns that can be followed. In the API Connect WhitePaper I present two common patterns. This article is a third pattern that I will propose to put into a future release of the WhitePaper.