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Manage your APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints

62 points by rey12rey 10y ago

themihai 10y ago
The whole thing is quite confusing. Is this open source? Is there any demo app that shows how it all works(i.e. the Service Control)? Last time I've checked 'cloud endpoints' was a half baked solution on appengine. I didn't have a good experience with swagger either.
- ivan_ah 10y ago
  There are some nice examples here: https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/python/create_api https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/python/cr... It seems like an interesting and useful approach, and it can optionally handle some of the OAuth2 stuff for you when clientIds managed by google. I've been staying away from GCP, but now kind of interested how this works.
- oaktowner 10y ago
  Hi -- PM on the product here. Both of our API frameworks have been open sourced (Java[0], Python[1]). Those used to be available only on App Engine Standard Environment but can now be used anywhere. This was a top request of people using Flexible Environments. But we've added a bunch of functionality to the platform (logging, monitoring, user authentication, tracing) that people can use whether or not they're using our frameworks -- for example, Python+Flask, NodeJS + Express, etc. To use it, you set it up with an OpenAPI Specification (FKA Swagger Spec). We've seen tons of interest in OpenAPI and even joined the Open API Initiative to foster that community. If you are interested in a walkthrough (that uses Python and Flask), see [2]. [0]https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-java https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-java [1]https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-python https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-pytho... [2]https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/quickstart-app-engine https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/quickstart-app-engin...
  - kishinmanglani 10y ago
    Can you provide keys to API clients and limit the keys to X requests per month?
    - oaktowner 10y ago
      You can require API keys and provide them to clients. We'll be adding rate limits and quotas soon as well. Are you more interested in X per month or X per second?
      - kishinmanglani 10y ago
        Interested in both. But more interested in X per month for SaaS billing, etc.
      - kishinmanglani 10y ago
        Any idea when the rate limits and quotas will be available? Trying to decide whether to use GC or AWS
  - sinzone 10y ago
    for the proxy are you using NGINX with Lua?
    - oaktowner 10y ago
      It's pure C++ for now for performance reasons.
      - sinzone 10y ago
        IMO NGINX/Openresty is on par with native C++ in terms of performances, but more maintainable long term.
pbreit 10y ago
So do you have to run on Google Cloud or can it work as a proxy Cloudflare-style? I was always wondering if there was a "Cloudflare for APIs", i guess like what Mashery sort of was.
- chrisbroadfoot 10y ago
  It runs everywhere. Here's an example of it running in a kubernetes cluster, regardless of where it's hosted: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/endpoints-samples/tree/master/k8s https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/endpoints-samples/tre... It's the "-k" parameter (key file) that lets you run it outside of Google Cloud. Credentials are automatically provided when you run it inside Google Cloud.
- moca 10y ago
  The proxy is packaged as a docker image, it can run anywhere docker is supported. For performance and convenience, the proxy and the server typically run next to each other, but that is not required.
machbio 10y ago
Seems similar to Mashape Kong - really happy with Kong - https://github.com/Mashape/kong https://github.com/Mashape/kong
- simonpantzare 10y ago
  Kong has been working without problems in our (small-scale) setup since we introduced it a few months back. Personally not too fond of the tooling to configure apis and consumers/credentials though. Is there a better way to manage these things than with curl?
  - fenfe1 10y ago
    I've used Kongfig [1] for use with automated provisioning. [1] https://github.com/mybuilder/kongfig https://github.com/mybuilder/kongfig
  - sinzone 10y ago
    There are several open-source admin/dashboards GUI built by the community. Here a few: - https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard - https://github.com/rsdevigo/jungle https://github.com/rsdevigo/jungle - https://github.com/ajaysreedhar/kongdash https://github.com/ajaysreedhar/kongdash - https://github.com/lestoni/dashy https://github.com/lestoni/dashy
fragola 10y ago
I think this is basically a competitor to AWS API Gateway: https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/
hasszhao 10y ago
Hahahaha

62 points by rey12rey 10y ago

The whole thing is quite confusing. Is this open source? Is there any demo app that shows how it all works(i.e. the Service Control)? Last time I've checked 'cloud endpoints' was a half baked solution on appengine. I didn't have a good experience with swagger either.

ivan_ah 10y ago
There are some nice examples here: https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/python/create_api https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/python/cr... It seems like an interesting and useful approach, and it can optionally handle some of the OAuth2 stuff for you when clientIds managed by google. I've been staying away from GCP, but now kind of interested how this works.
oaktowner 10y ago
Hi -- PM on the product here. Both of our API frameworks have been open sourced (Java[0], Python[1]). Those used to be available only on App Engine Standard Environment but can now be used anywhere. This was a top request of people using Flexible Environments. But we've added a bunch of functionality to the platform (logging, monitoring, user authentication, tracing) that people can use whether or not they're using our frameworks -- for example, Python+Flask, NodeJS + Express, etc. To use it, you set it up with an OpenAPI Specification (FKA Swagger Spec). We've seen tons of interest in OpenAPI and even joined the Open API Initiative to foster that community. If you are interested in a walkthrough (that uses Python and Flask), see [2]. [0]https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-java https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-java [1]https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-python https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-pytho... [2]https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/quickstart-app-engine https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/quickstart-app-engin...
- kishinmanglani 10y ago
  Can you provide keys to API clients and limit the keys to X requests per month?
  - oaktowner 10y ago
    You can require API keys and provide them to clients. We'll be adding rate limits and quotas soon as well. Are you more interested in X per month or X per second?
    - kishinmanglani 10y ago
      Interested in both. But more interested in X per month for SaaS billing, etc.
    - kishinmanglani 10y ago
      Any idea when the rate limits and quotas will be available? Trying to decide whether to use GC or AWS
- sinzone 10y ago
  for the proxy are you using NGINX with Lua?
  - oaktowner 10y ago
    It's pure C++ for now for performance reasons.
    - sinzone 10y ago
      IMO NGINX/Openresty is on par with native C++ in terms of performances, but more maintainable long term.

pbreit 10y ago

So do you have to run on Google Cloud or can it work as a proxy Cloudflare-style? I was always wondering if there was a "Cloudflare for APIs", i guess like what Mashery sort of was.

chrisbroadfoot 10y ago
It runs everywhere. Here's an example of it running in a kubernetes cluster, regardless of where it's hosted: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/endpoints-samples/tree/master/k8s https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/endpoints-samples/tre... It's the "-k" parameter (key file) that lets you run it outside of Google Cloud. Credentials are automatically provided when you run it inside Google Cloud.
moca 10y ago
The proxy is packaged as a docker image, it can run anywhere docker is supported. For performance and convenience, the proxy and the server typically run next to each other, but that is not required.

machbio 10y ago

Seems similar to Mashape Kong - really happy with Kong - https://github.com/Mashape/kong https://github.com/Mashape/kong

simonpantzare 10y ago
Kong has been working without problems in our (small-scale) setup since we introduced it a few months back. Personally not too fond of the tooling to configure apis and consumers/credentials though. Is there a better way to manage these things than with curl?
- fenfe1 10y ago
  I've used Kongfig [1] for use with automated provisioning. [1] https://github.com/mybuilder/kongfig https://github.com/mybuilder/kongfig
- sinzone 10y ago
  There are several open-source admin/dashboards GUI built by the community. Here a few: - https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard https://github.com/PGBI/kong-dashboard - https://github.com/rsdevigo/jungle https://github.com/rsdevigo/jungle - https://github.com/ajaysreedhar/kongdash https://github.com/ajaysreedhar/kongdash - https://github.com/lestoni/dashy https://github.com/lestoni/dashy

fragola 10y ago

I think this is basically a competitor to AWS API Gateway: https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

hasszhao 10y ago

Hahahaha