I've created several RESTful microservices and dockerized them. Now I want to have a web-based UI for them and the ability to create users and grant permissions to them to use some of the APIs.
I know that I need some kind of API gateway. My first thought was that I always could do that bruteforce way: create some django app that would serve UI and proxy all request to APIs by hand, but this seems very dull. Maybe there are some alternatives? I've ready about Tyk, but can't find any information about the ability to add users and grant permissions to them.
I probably could create an application that would serve as API gateway and automate proxying of requests by writing some code that would model that. So for example I basically need a mapping between external urls to actual api urls and some authorization logic. Maybe there are already something like that?
Unless I'm mistaken (I'm a bit new to containers) - I think all of these solutions from Amazon AWS (with AWS API Gateway itself in front of any of them for public access) would also fall in the category of freemium solutions for running / orchestrating Docker Container(s) behind a public API Gateway:
Here are AWS blogs on using AWS API Gateway with them:
And depending on your requirements, either of these (also from Amazon AWS) should also meet requirements for users, accounts, permissions, authorization, etc:
By the way, I don't think any intermediary management / compute / server should be necessary for architecting with any of those (although compute from AWS EC2 and/or AWS Lambda could still be inserted for any purpose), as they are all AWS services [that manage their functionality] unto themselves.