Provider Organizations
A Provider Organization is just as it sounds. It is the organization that provides the APIs. This should not be confused with a consumer organization, which you might have guessed is the organization that consumes the APIs. Defining your Provider Organization is done within the Cloud Manager UI and must be defined before you or anyone else can access the API Management Console to develop and publish your APIs. It is here that you define a few important pieces of information, as follows:
- Organization title/name
- The user registry that will be used to authenticate the owner's user access
- The owner of the organization
Configuring your Provider Organization
Let's begin with the configuration:
- To begin configuring your Provider Organization, you must be logged into the Cloud Manager UI. Once logged in, you should be at the home screen where you need to click the Manage Organizations icon as shown in Figure 3.3:
Figure 3.3...
