5.6.1 Readme

Product Name : TIBCO Cloud(TM) API Management - Local Edition
Release Version : 5.6.1
Release Date : February 2023

Introduction

TIBCO Cloud(TM) API Management - Local Edition is a cloud-native API gateway that can be deployed within a customer's datacenter or on Cloud platforms.

TIBCO Cloud API Management - Local Edition (hereinafter referred to as "API Management - Local Edition" or "the Local Edition") supports two mutually exclusive deployment modes, both which allow customers to process API traffic within their on-premises environment:

Untethered, without any external dependencies
Tethered, alongside TIBCO Cloud API Management

In Tethered mode, TIBCO Cloud API Management includes a cloud-hosted Developer Portal, Administrative Control Center, API Reporting and Analytics dashboard.

In Untethered mode, API Management - Local Edition includes a locally deployed Developer Portal and Administrative Control Center. Logs from Local Edition can be collected and forwarded for downstream reporting and analytics via other externally-available tools.

API Management - Local Edition is available to customers for installation in container-based environments.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

CPU: Production API Management - Local Edition 5.x clusters should have a minimum of 6 Processors allocated towards the platform's components.

Product-Specific Information

TIBCO Cloud(TM) API Management - Local Edition 5.6.1 has been tested on and example scripts have been provided for the following platforms:

Amazon AWS

EKS Kubernetes 1.23
Red Hat OpenShift 4.10

Google Cloud

GKE Kubernetes 1.24
Red Hat OpenShift 4.10

Microsoft Azure

AKS Kubernetes 1.24
Red Hat OpenShift 4.10

On-premises

Docker Community Edition 20+ (Docker Swarm)
Red Hat OpenShift 4.10
Kubernetes v1.24

This release is tested on and is compliant with containered, cri-o and docker runtimes.

The example scripts are intended to help expedite testing and deployment of the platform with little to no changes. Users are expected to review and make customizations on an as-needed basis to meet existing or specific environment requirements such as the choice of cloud provider, orchestrator, and network.

If the provided set of example scripts do not reflect your environment's design, please refer the deployments section of the TIBCO Cloud API Management - Local Edition Installation and Configuration Guide. This also includes details on building containers, an overview of their bindings, interdependency, and traffic management services. So you can create or customize a set of deployment scripts for your specific requirements.

Need help creating new or modifying existing example deployment scripts? If so, please contact your TIBCO account representative to discuss additional services options available.

Support for MySQL Community and Standard (Commercial) Edition

TIBCO Cloud(TM) API Management - Local Edition is configured for use with both MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Standard (Commercial) Edition. If using MySQL Standard Edition, customers will need to obtain their own licensed version of MySQL Standard Edition. For more information on how to configure TIBCO Cloud API Management - Local Edition to use with MySQL Standard Edition, please see the "Installing MySQL Standard (Commercial) Edition" section of the TIBCO Cloud(TM) API Management - Local Edition Installation and Configuration Guide.

Your license to the Licensed Software (here, TIBCO Cloud API Management - Local Edition) includes the latest version of the Licensed Software that was generally available ("GA") as of the effective date of your license (or a subsequent release to which you are entitled in accordance with TIBCO's Maintenance terms), but the license does not extend to any prior version of the Licensed Software. By way of example, if TIBCO Cloud API Management - Local Edition 5.4.0 is the GA version as of the effective date of your license, your license includes version 5.4.0 and subsequent higher versions of the Licensed Software (e.g., 5.4.1), but does not extend to versions 5.3.1, or 5.3.x, or 5.2.x, or 5.1.x, or 5.0.x, or 4.x.x, or 3.x.x., etc., or any later released version that is an update of such version (e.g., if TIBCO were to release a version 4.4.4 in the future, in support of version 4.4.3, the license would not extend to such a version 4.4.4).

Documentation

Documentation for this and other TIBCO products is available on the TIBCO Documentation site. This site is updated more frequently than any documentation that might be included with the product. To ensure that you are accessing the latest available help topics, visit: https://docs.tibco.com.

TIBCO Product Support

You can contact TIBCO Support in the following ways:

For an overview of TIBCO Support, visit http://www.tibco.com/services/support.

For accessing the Support Knowledge Base and getting personalized content about products you are interested in, visit the TIBCO Support portal at https://support.tibco.com.

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