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This page applies to Apigee and Apigee hybrid.

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What you're doing in this step

Follow the steps below to create and deploy a test API proxy. Finally, test the API proxy by sending an HTTP request to it.

Create and deploy an API proxy

The provisioning process for Apigee does not automatically create and deploy an API proxy for you. You must create and deploy a proxy manually.

To create and deploy your first proxy:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Proxy development > API proxies page.

    Go to API proxies

  2. Be sure that your organization name is selected from the project picker in the Google Cloud pane. The organization name is the same as your Google Cloud project name.
  3. Click + Create.

    The Create a proxy page opens.

  4. In the Proxy template box, select Reverse proxy (most common).
  5. In Step 1: Proxy details, configure your proxy with the following values:
    Parameter name Value
    Proxy name hello-world
    Base path /hello-world
    Target (Existing API) mocktarget.apigee.net
  6. Click Next.
  7. In Step 2: Deploy (optional):
    • Deployment environments: Optional. Use the checkboxes to select one or more environments in which to deploy your proxy. If you prefer not to deploy the proxy at this point, leave the Deployment environments field empty. You can always deploy the proxy later.
    • Service Account: Optional. Attach a service account to your deployment to enable your proxy to access Google Cloud services, as specified in the service account's role and permissions.
  8. Click Create.

    Your new API proxy is created and deployed in the selected environment.

  9. The Proxy summary page for your newly created proxy opens. A green check mark under Status indicates that the proxy was successfully deployed. If the proxy is not deployed, see Deploying an API proxy and follow the steps to deploy it manually.
  10. In the left navigation pane, select Management > Environments > Environment Groups.
  11. Copy the hostname for your environment group. You'll use this hostname to call the API proxy in the next steps.

Call the proxy with internal access

If you allowed internal access in Step 4: Customize access routing, follow the instructions in: Calling an API proxy with internal-only access.

Call the proxy with external access

If you allowed external access in Step 4: Customize access routing, follow these steps:

  1. Set up a DNS entry for your host. Here are two ways to accomplish this task:
    • At your registrar, create an A record pointing your environment group hostname to the IP shown on the wizard page under Configure DNS. For example, if your hostname is sales.example.com and the IP is 10.23.0.2, then point the record for sales.example.com to the address 10.23.0.2.
    • Use Google Cloud DNS to map a URL to an IP address.
  2. Test the API proxy by sending the following request in a terminal window: 
    curl -v -H "Host:YOUR_ENV_GROUP_HOSTNAME" \
  https://YOUR_INSTANCE_IP_OR_DNS/hello-world

    Where:

    • The value of the Host header (YOUR_ENV_GROUP_HOSTNAME) is the hostname from the Environments > Environment Groups page.

    A successful request returns the string: Hello, Guest!. If your request is not successful, see Troubleshooting.

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