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## Requirements
This role requires:
- an instance of 3scale API Management Platform (hosted or on-premise)
- an instance of Red Hat SSO if you plan to use OpenID Connect authentication
- two APIcast gateways (staging and production), either hosted or self-managed
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On the control node, the `jmespath` library is required. If it is not already there,
you can install it with:
```
```sh
pip install jmespath
```
A recent version of Jinja (2.8) is also required. You can upgrade your Jinja version with:
```
```sh
pip install -U Jinja2
```
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If you want to deploy the classic "Echo API" on a SaaS 3scale instance using API Keys,
you can do it in three steps:
1. Craft a Swagger file for your Echo API
2. Build your inventory file
3. Write the playbook
4. Run the playbook!
First, make sure your swagger file (`api-swagger.yaml`) has the required information:
```
```yaml
swagger: '2.0'
info:
x-threescale-system-name: 'echo-api'
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```
In this Swagger file, the following fields are used:
- `x-threescale-system-name` is used as system_name for the configuration objects in 3scale.
- `title` is used as the name of the service definition.
- `version` is used for proper versioning and follows the [semver scheme](https://semver.org/).
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- the `security` and `securityDefinitions` are used to determine the security scheme of the exposed API. In this example, we are using the API Keys scheme.
- the 3scale admin portal needs to be declared in a group named `threescale`.
- the [3scale access token](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_3scale/2.saas/html-single/accounts/index#access_tokens) needs to be set in the `threescale_cicd_access_token` variable.
- since no SSH connection is needed (we only use the 3scale Admin APIs), `ansible_connection=local` is set to the whole inventory.
You can now write the playbook (`deploy-api.yaml`):
```
```yaml
- hosts: threescale
gather_facts: no
vars:
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```
The main parts are:
- `threescale_cicd_openapi_file` is the path to the swagger file defined in step 1.
- the `nmasse-itix.threescale-cicd` role is used.
- `gather_facts: no` needs to be used since there is no SSH connection to the target systems.