API Registry Applications

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Tim Burks edited this page Oct 7, 2022 · 4 revisions

What can we do with an API registry?

There are many things that we would like to automate using an API registry. Here are some examples:

Evaluate APIs for conformance to API style guides.
Deploy services to Google Cloud Run (or other platforms) and store descriptions of these deployments in the registry.
Configure API proxies to serve APIs listed in the registry, storing the new endpoints as deployments in the registry.
Run protoc to compute FileDescriptorSets, store them in the registry, and use them to configure proxies (e.g. envoy, grpc-gateway).
Generate OpenAPI specs for proxied APIs using protoc and protoc-gen-openapi. Store the generated specs in the registry.
Run other Protocol-buffer based tools including client library generation, CLI generation, and documentation generation, and store these results in the registry or in external systems.