VOTEROID SECURE API GATEWAY USING MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

In the current era of increasing web and software development based on Microservices Architecture , security concerns are also increasing to protect applications from malicious activities, attacks, unauthorized and unauthenticated accesses. An API Gateway resolves that problem to some extent. Various API Gateways are currently available to support various security challenges. This Paper Proposed a System named VSAG ( Voteroid Secure API Gateway) which not just works on the cross cutting concerns but also provide advanced facilities like Secured Access key generation, Users subscription model, low degree of coupling, Tracking model of users, blocking/unblocking API’s or users. Developers are free to invest time in designing business logics after mapped with VSAG System. At last, various API Gateways are compared on various parameters and functionalities with VSAG. The gateways which are compared with VSAG are Spring Cloud gateway, Zuul & NGNIX on the parameters includes technology, routing, support of eureka naming server, support to web sockets, degree of loose couplings, user subscription model, user authentication with JWT Tokens, inbuilt API endpoint for license key generation for authorization purpose, inbuilt tracking model of API users.