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If you only need the above APIs, then Service Manager is a plugin-in replacement for CAPIF.
In addition to CAPIF, Service Manager depends
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 planeData 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.
CAPIF core function APIs implemented by Service Manager
The table below lists the CAPIF Core Function APIs that are currently implemented , in Service Manager. The Service Names are listed in the order that they would typically be called.
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