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Step 2: Deploy an API proxy

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Now that you've installed and configured the Apigee hybrid runtime and ingress gateway, you're ready to see how it all works together.

1. Create a new API proxy using the Apigee UI

This section describes how to create a new API proxy in the UI using the API Proxy Wizard.

  1. Open the Apigee UI in a browser.
  2. Select your organization from the dropdown menu in the upper left corner.
  3. Select Proxy development > API proxies in the main view.
  4. Click Create.The API Proxy Wizard starts.
  5. Select Reverse proxy (most common).

    The Proxy details view is displayed.

  6. Configure your proxy with the following settings:

    Your API proxy's details should look like the following:

    Proxy details in create proxy wizard.

  7. Click Next.
  8. Under Deploy (optional), you have the option to select one or more environments in which to deploy your proxy, in the Deployment environments field. If you prefer not to deploy the proxy at this point, leave the Deployment environments field empty. You can always deploy the proxy later.
  9. Click Create. Apigee generates the proxy (sometimes referred to as the proxy bundle).

Apigee displays the Proxy summary view. If you chose to deploy the proxy, the Deployments section displays the Revision number, which is 1 when you first deploy. The Status column displays the environments in which the proxy is deployed with a green status indicator.

Below that, the Revisions section shows all revisions made to this proxy. By clicking on one of the VIEW items in the Endpoint summary column, the Endpoint section displays:

2. Call the API proxy

When the UI indicates your proxy is deployed, you can try calling it using cURL or the REST client of your choice. For example:

  1. Make sure your DOMAIN environment variable is set to the domain name you used for the hostname for your environment group in Project and org setup - Step 3: Create an environment group. 
    echo $DOMAIN

  2. Find the external IP address and port of the Apigee ingress gateway with the following command:

    kubectl get svc -n APIGEE_NAMESPACE -l app=apigee-ingressgateway

    Your output should look something like: 

    NAME                                        TYPE           CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)                                      AGE
apigee-ingressgateway-prod-hybrid-37a39bd   LoadBalancer   192.0.2.123   233.252.0.123   15021:32049/TCP,80:31624/TCP,443:30723/TCP   16h
  3. Export your external IP and port to variables: 
    export INGRESS_IP_ADDRESS=EXTERNAL_IP_ADDRESS
export INGRESS_PORT=PORT_NUMBER
  4. Call the API proxy: 
    curl  -H Host:$DOMAIN --resolve \
  $DOMAIN:$INGRESS_PORT:$INGRESS_IP_ADDRESS  \
  https://$DOMAIN:$INGRESS_PORT/myproxy -k -v

    For example: 

    curl -v -H Host:example.com --resolve example.com:443:233.252.0.123 https://example.com:443/myproxy -k -v
  5. A successful call to the proxy returns an HTTP 200 response code and the following output. 
    Hello, Guest!

To learn more about building and deploying API proxies, see Build your first proxy overview.