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Managing Flex Replicas

Flex Replicas

A Flex Replica is an instance of the Flex Gateway. Each running Flex Gateway instance in Connected Mode is a replica of a gateway registered in Runtime Manager. Setting up your gateway layer with multiple Flex Gateway replicas will enable the APIs deployed on Flex Gateway to serve more traffic.

When using Anypoint Flex Gateway to manage APIs in production, you should at least have more than one Flex Replica to avoid a single point of failure. Running multiple Flex Replicas also increases performance if your API service receives a significant amount of traffic.

Add a Flex Replica

After installing, registering, and running your Flex Gateway, you will need to add a replica to avoid a single point of failure.

There are two options for adding a Flex replica including the following: