integrate application gateway ingress controller with api management

Question

Hi,

In my current setup I am using aks with AGIC and I want to limit the request to the api's and also implement security, request and response handling. How to integrate magic with API Management ?

Answer 1

Hi @Somiya Thanks for reaching out. From the description I believe the actual flow is client -> App Gateway -> APIM -> Backend please correct me if I am wrong here.
in order to limit the request to the API's you can implement Rate limit and quotas policies for more information please refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-access-restriction-policies

Our data plane security model provides other methods to protect the downstream traffic to APIM and you can use any of them to enforce more restriction, below is a diagram that lists the all the methods we provide:

you can implement any of the above methods in conjunction with the subscription Key to improve the security and enforce more restriction's

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-sample-send-request#making-the-validation-request
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-access-restriction-policies#SetUsageQuota

Kindly let me know incase of further queries, I would you happy to assist you.

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