Connect Akto with Mulesoft Flex Gateway

Connect Akto with Mulesoft Flex Gateway

Setup Akto Runtime and Data Ingestion Service

Follow these steps to add setup Akto Runtime and Data Ingestion Service -

1. SSH into the instance where you want to deploy the above Akto services

2. Run the following commands to download docker compose and env files

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akto-api-security/infra/refs/heads/feature/quick-setup/docker-compose-data-ingestion-runtime.yml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akto-api-security/infra/refs/heads/feature/quick-setup/docker-mini-runtime.env
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akto-api-security/infra/refs/heads/feature/quick-setup/data-ingestion-docker.env
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akto-api-security/infra/refs/heads/feature/quick-setup/watchtower.env

3. Modify ${AKTO_KAFKA_IP} in docker-compose-data-ingestion-runtime.yml with the ip of your instance on which runtime will be deployed

4. Go to https://app.akto.io, and create your akto account. Login into your Account

5. Click on Quick Start tab in left nav.

6. Search for Hybrid SaaS Connector and click connect.

7. Copy the token value under Runtime Service Command section. Replace the token string with the earlier copied value in docker-mini-runtime.env file.

DATABASE_ABSTRACTOR_SERVICE_TOKEN=token

8. Run docker-compose -f docker-compose-data-ingestion-runtime.yml -d

9. Make sure this instance is reachable from the instances where your api's are hosted, on which policy will be applied

Connect Akto with Mulesoft Flex Gateway

Setup Flex Policy

1. Follow PDK Prerequisites on the Mulesoft documentation site, and setup the basic requirements

2. Initialise a new project anypoint-cli-v4 pdk policy-project create --name <my-custom-policy>

3. Clone the repo.

4. Copy content of gcl.yaml, lib.rs, Corgo.toml files, and paste these files in your project at respective locations.

5. Compile the project by running

make build-asset-files
cargo build
make build

6. Publish the policy to mulesoft exchange by running make publish

7. Select your api's on which you want to apply Akto Policy.

8. Copy the instance ip where Akto Runtime was deployed, and replace <url> in the below string and use it as input param ingestionUrl to the policy

https://<url>:9091/api/ingestData