Distributed API management in a hybrid cloud environment

Swiss Railways operates a substantial Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud installation, hosting many thousand containers. Introducing microservices at scale and moving to hybrid container infrastructures introduces a new set of challenges. What about security, life cycle, dependencies, governance, and self-service with thousands of services on a hybrid environment?

To handle the enormous growth of APIs, an API management platform based on 3scale by Red Hat on-premise and Red Hat single sign-on (SSO) was built, integrating internal and external IdPs. The solution is portable, scalable, and highly available, and all processes are automated and available as self service. The platform is in production, serving multiple critical internal and external APIs targeting 100K+ API calls per second.

In this session, you will learn about the benefits of building a fully automated self-service API management and SSO platform in a distributed, hybrid environment, how we approached the project, what challenges we faced, and how we solved them.

Speakers:

Thomas Siegrist, Team Lead Integration Services / Product Owner API Management, Swiss Federal Railways
Thomas Siegrist works as team lead at Swiss Federal Railways, covering design, engineering and operations of all integration platforms and solutions. He also acts as product owner for the distributed API Management and SSO platforms built on top of OpenShift.

Christian Sanabria, Principal Architect, ipt
Christian Sanabria works as Principal Architect at ipt. He currently supports Swiss Federal Railways establishing a API Management and SSO platform for their cloud infrastructure. Recent other projects included API Security, API Management as well as Continuous Delivery for other well-known companies like Swisscom or UBS.
His track record also includes over 15 years in software development, architecture and integration, the last years mainly with Red Hat products.

Christoph Eberle, Solution Architect, Red Hat
Christoph Eberle works as Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat with 10+ years track in architecting and engineering middleware solutions. He has a strong background in API Management, building up OpenAPI platforms for major airlines in Europe in the past.

Sponsor:
Thanks a lot to Innovation Process Technology AG for sponsoring again the location. This is crucial to host event and bring the API community together to meet.