Implement Runtime API Governance with Ease
Traefik Hub makes it easy to enforce critical runtime API policies for secure, reliable, and compliant API management.
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What is Runtime API Governance?
API governance establishes the policies, processes, and controls needed to ensure your APIs are developed, maintained, and utilized effectively and securely. By managing access, enforcing standards, ensuring proper documentation, and continuously monitoring performance, API governance protects data and ensures consistent API operations across your organization.
A common misconception is that API Governance is solely about API design concerns.
Ikenna Nwaiwu
API Consultant at Ikenna Consulting
Runtime API governance, in comparison, extends these principles to the operational phase, enforcing policies for API deployment, security, observability, and lifecycle management. It ensures that APIs are deployed in a secure and traceable manner, with version-controlled configurations and standardized change management.
Why Runtime API Governance Matters
Runtime API governance is crucial for maintaining consistency, compliance, and security throughout the lifecycle of your entire API ecosystem. It helps mitigate risks of misconfiguration and security breaches by consistently applying policies. Effective governance enhances collaboration among development teams and improves the overall user experience.
Benefits of Effective API Governance
Increase Operational Efficiency
Streamline deployments and boost collaboration among developers through CI/CD practices, reducing manual errors and enabling quick rollbacks when necessary.
Reduce Security Risks
Protect your APIs and data by enforcing consistent security policies, ensuring safe interactions and minimizing unauthorized access.
Improve Reliability and Visibility
Ensure your API traffic is effectively monitored with real-time telemetry, automated error checks, and change impact analysis to quickly identify and resolve performance issues.
Strengthen Your Runtime API Governance with Traefik Hub
Manage your APIs with consistency, compliance, and security with the 5 most essential runtime policies available inside Traefik Hub
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CI/CD Foundation
Developer-friendly, traceable, and easy-to-rollback approach for API deployments
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Traefik Hub manages API descriptions and configurations with Git as the single source of truth, enabling version control, traceability, and easy rollbacks.
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GitOps principles ensure reliable configuration changes, reducing manual errors and enabling stable, consistent deployments.
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CI/CD automates change processes, acting as the change agent to streamline deployment and rollback procedures.
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API Discoverability & Documentation
Comprehensive API documentation available to users
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Traefik Hub offers an API Developer Portal that enables users to explore, understand, and test available API endpoints in real time.
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Centralized API Catalog consolidates all live APIs, providing accurate documentation and programmatic access.
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Effortless service auto-discovery automatically detects and exposes all existing APIs.
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API Security
Secure all API traffic from malicious and unauthorized access
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Traefik Hub’s API Gateway exposes all APIs and enforces security controls such as authentication and authorization, granular API access, rate limiting, input validation, and monitoring.
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High-performance WAF supporting OWASP core rule sets to protect all public APIs and block malicious requests.
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3rd-party API encryption and validation through Traefik's API gateway that acts as an egress API gateway.
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API Change Management
API change impact analysis to minimize service failure & breaking changes
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Error checks with Traefik’s static analyzer to identify the impact of API configuration changes and prevent API misconfiguration.
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Change impact analysis to ensure all APIs adhere to the recommended versioning scheme.
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Traefik Hub includes support for multiple versioning schemes.
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API Observability
Proactive API monitoring and deep observability to maintain high API reliability
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Alerting and notifications for critical metrics and performance indicators, and built-in dashboard with real-time view.
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OpenTelemetry with the most comprehensive support in the industry (20+ metrics and 15+ labels)
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API telemetry correlation to identify performance issues caused by new deployments.
Start Governing Your APIs Today
Implement the most essential Runtime API Governance policies with Traefik Hub.
