Do I need to bind the secure gateway service to my app?

Question

I saw the following document.

https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/SecureGateway/index.html#sg_overview

In the summary near the end, it says "Provision the service and bind it to your app". But do I really need to bind the secure gateway service to my app? I could access the secure gateway's destination without binding the service.

Answer 1

You are correct. Since the Secure Gateway service does not actually use VCAP services there are no advantages to binding your application to the service instance.