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CAPIF implements 3GPP TS 29.222 V17.5.0 Common API Framework for 3GPP Northbound APIs. Service Manager also implements 3GPP TS 29.222 V17.5.0 Common API Framework for 3GPP Northbound APIs. Service Manager uses a subset of CAPIF to provide the following APIs.
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If you only need the above APIs, then Service Manager is a plugin-in replacement for CAPIF.
Service Manager Integration with Kong
When you call the Publish Service API of Service Manager, the requests body contains the IPv4 address and port of the API Publishing Function. In the response body, these values are replaced by the IP v4 Address and port of the Kong Data Plane. This allows us to use Kong as a reverse proxy. Instead of calling the Publishing service directly, our Invoker's API request is proxied through Kong. This gives us the advantages of using a proxied service, such as providing caching and load balancing.
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