Using Tyk and Git to source-control your APIs

This article discusses the integration of Tyk and Git to streamline the process of source-controlling APIs, particularly in the context of continuous deployment and integration. It introduces a tool called Tyk-Git, designed to facilitate the migration of API configurations across different environments, such as development, testing, and production, while minimizing human error and ensuring consistency. Tyk-Git allows users to dump API definitions and policies from a Tyk dashboard into a directory, making them portable and version-controlled via Git. By employing ID masking, Tyk-Git ensures that policy IDs remain immutable, thus maintaining configuration integrity across environments. The tool supports synchronization with dashboards, updating existing APIs and policies without creating redundant entries, and enables API configurations to be deployed selectively to various environments. Although Tyk-Git is in its early stages of development, the article encourages users to experiment with it and provide feedback, with the potential for its functionalities to be integrated into core applications in the future.