Welcome back to Open Enterprise I/O. One of the main questions is what is your enterprise like if it’s open. And so one of the easiest ways to approach an open enterprise is to in part have open-source software.
Think about your enterprise, now think about it being an open enterprise. Notice what’s different for you now.
I don’t know if you’ve been over to WSO2.com recently, but they have a brand new API for release. And so let’s take a quick tour of what’s new with API four dot. Oh, okay. So we’ll get right over there. First thing is to go to WSO2.com and, and let me see it says, Hey, next generation technologies to future-proof your business. And so you can try it now, link right here. If you click on that, and there’s obviously a bunch of stuff to read there. If you were to click that link, that takes you right over to this page. And once you get there, you can click on documentation and that gives you one of the, it gives you a whole bunch of documentation, and it’s a whole bunch of things. One of the very first things that you need to know about is that the API and enterprise integrator are now combined to be one product while still loosely, coupled in a way it’s a mental tight coupling of those two products together so that you can have your API manager, your integration services. So what used to be is ESP, and which is now called micro integrator, um, and you’re streaming integrations. So you can have streaming integrations from all your internet of things and Kafka and anything that would be streaming data and process at a real time, you can have your micro integration services. Again, WSO2 is going cloud native as much as possible. So cloud-first based designs. So you, you can create your micro cell, um, microservices that have API APIs built right in.
That’s what my integrations for micro integrator is for. Um, and then again, the, the API manager, so you can have internal, external, or both, um, API services published publicly. So people that developers can go to, you know, the developer developer portal, which used to be called the store and find API that are relevant for them to jump start and fast, make their, you know, connections within the enterprise. Obviously API managers still can be used for, um, for selling API services externally outside of your company as well. If that’s an option that you’re looking for. Um, so, so that’s the big change is that these three are all together within one product. And so, um, so the quick question about how all that’s licensed, it used to be, you’d have to, um, get API manager and enterprise integrator and licensed both obviously still contact WSO2 to my understanding is that if you, when you get a license for API manager, now you get a license for all of that.
And then it’s up to you. How you lay things out with the number of cores you bought, and one thing, just contact WSO2, they can clear all that up and make it real clear what, how that works. Um, if you want to have, um, you know, supported services and of course you want to have support services because that helps create the open source software that WSO2 is producing. Um, and there’s a whole bunch of pages and pages and pages of, of documentation here. So just to give you a little look at that, let’s look at the architecture real quick. That probably would have been clear than the, what I was just talking about. Um, one of the changes that in concepts that WSO2 has made recently with API manager over some of the older API layouts is they’ve broken it into a management plane, a data plane, and a control plane.
So you’re, so it used to be that you would split up API manager with multiple profiles across, you know, small little segments of gateway and key manager and traffic manager. And, and so the groupings are different now, um, with version four. So take a, take a look at your architecture as you upgrade, um, and, and see with changes there, how that might impact your, your deployments and, um, and just in clarifying communication within your teams as to how things are laid out differently. Now, um, as you can see, the, the API gateway is in the data plane streaming integrator, and micro integrator, all of that’s in the data plane. Um, and obviously the micro integrator still has all the connectors for, for communicating with all the external services. So you can have your APIs talking to your COTS systems, talking to your micro integration, sorry, your microservices, um, talking to your legacy megalithis, create connections for all of that, and talking to databases.
So, um, I don’t know if in the past you’ve had the data, the data services where you can talk to data databases, that’s all tied into micro integrator now. Um, let’s see, what else is there to point out? So management plan is all about managing your system. And so there’s just a lots and lots of things you can scroll through here on this architecture page. The architecture page is a great spot to get the super high level view of what’s happening. Obviously about this release, oh my God, the new features that are listed just, it just keeps going
And going and going and going and going and going.
Because it lists all the new API features, all the new enterprise integrator features and all of the streaming features that are all the changes, all the things that have been taken out, things that have been added, things that have been renamed, just, it keeps going. Um, and one of the new things that I want to point out is the choreo connect. And I’m going to talk about that more in another video, that’s all for now to TA and I look forward to talk to you again,