webMethods and Intelligent Business Operations 10.2 | Integrate Software AG Products Using Digital Event Services | API Gateway Configuration Guide | API Gateway Staging and Promotion | Introduction
 
Introduction
API Gateway supports staging and promotion of assets. In a typical enterprise-level, solutions are separated according to the different stages of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) such as development, quality assurance (QA), and production stages. As each organization builds APIs for easy consumption and monetization, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) is an integral part of the solution. Where, CI is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day and CD is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time. Development of assets starts at the development stage and once the assets are developed, they are promoted to the QA stage for testing, after testing of the assets is complete, the assets are promoted to the deployment stage.
API Gateway provides tools and features to automate your CI and CD practices. Modifications made to the APIs, policies, and other assets can be efficiently delivered to the application developers with speed and agility.
Note: Software AG recommends you to have API Gateway instances across stages to be completely independent. For example, the API Gateway instances from the development stage and the API Gateway instances from the QA stage must not share any resources in common such as databases.

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