API Connect

1. Configure the TLS Server Profile

As mTLS is handled at the handshake level you will mostly need to configure it for all APIs on the same hostname and enable it through the TLS Server profile mapped to a specific hostname.  In API Connect Reserved Instance you can do this through the RI Config Manager.

• Under TLS
  • Create a Keystore and Truststore
  • Configure a TLS Server Profile
    This should reference the key store and trust store created and set the mTLS option to either require or request. 
    
• Under Gateways, select the Gateway service desired and then configure the Domains handled by Gateway via SNI for the hostname to use this profile
  
• Configure your DNS to route the new hostname to the API Connect gateway by creating a CNAME pointing to the value shown for Base URL of the API invocation endpoint

2. Configure your API to require mTLS 

• Ensure your API is configured to require at least a client id so that the calling application can be mapped to a subscription
• On the gateway tab of the API Editor enable Application Authentication
• Set the Application Authentication Source to be `tls-cert` so the certificate is used from the handshake. 
  Alternatively if you are using a load balancer doing TLS termination in front of the gateway you can configure the certificate to be passed in a header and set that as the source. 
• Publish your API
  NB. you won't be able to test your API through the built in test tab as it does not have an option to provide a certificate.

3. Create certificates, subscription and test the API

• Create a client certificate to use to call the API - in this example I'm going to use a self-signed certificate I created for testing using the following OpenSSL commands:
  
  

  openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -nodes -keyout client-private-key.pem -out cert_request.pem
  openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in cert_request.pem -signkey client-private-key.pem  -out client-public-cert.pem

• Then from the API Manager catalog page, create a Consumer Org.
• Create an Application and upload the public certificate you created (client-public-cert.pem from the example above).
  
• Create a subscription for the Application to your API from the overflow menu on the applications list
• You should now be able to call the API using your subscription and client certificate - using curl this will look something like this:
  

  curl https://{mtls-hostname}/{organisation}/{catalog}/{base-url} --cert client-public-cert.pem --key client-private-key.pem -H "X-IBM-Client-ID: {client-id}

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