This section showcases basic usage of Ocelot as API Gateway.

Ocelot is a pluggable API gateway that you can install on top of ASP.net core projects. DIY gateways generally offer the following benefits:

• Open-source and free of charge
• Good for existing on-premise deployments without modifications to ecosystem
• Can easily be propagated to cloud environments (Low migration cost)

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Postman (Optional for testing)

Run the following shell command to boot up this demo

# Windows Users and Root Linux Users
docker-compose up -d

# Non-root Linux Users
sudo docker-compose up -d

You can utilize the postman payload found on the root of this folder to test both downstream and gateway endpoints.

To retrieve from downstream endpoints:

# Dowstream Product List
curl -i GET http://localhost:52790/api/products/list

# Dowstream User List
curl -i GET http://localhost:52791/api/users/list

# Dowstream Transaction List
curl -i GET http://localhost:52792/api/transactions/list

To retrieve from gateway endpoints:

# Gateway Product List
curl -i GET http://localhost:52793/api/products

# Gateway User List
curl -i GET http://localhost:52793/api/users

# Gateway Transaction List
curl -i GET http://localhost:52793/api/transactions