api_gateway_service

API gateway Service

This is the API gateway of Delinkcious. It is the only externally visible service. It communicates with the other microservices using API composition:

• link service
• user service
• social graph service
• news service

Implementing Social login

The API gaeway uses Github OAuth. You must add it as a Github Oauth application. See Building Github OAuth Applications

Exposing to the world via port forwarding

The simplest way to expose the API gateway to the world is by port-forwrding the Kubernetes service directly:

kubectl port-forward svc/api-gateway 5000:5000