Four years ago, I started writing an API Gateway. Not because I wanted to build a product — but because we needed more from the tools we had. I was working inside a government institution running a complex hybrid environment — services spread across on-premises data centers and cloud, strict security and compliance requirements, and a growing number of APIs that all needed to be managed, secured, and observed. We were using a well known API Gateway product, a capable and powerful platform, but for our use case, it was too heavy.

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USECASES

With Camel K version 2.9 we have enhanced the GitOps capability of the operator to run a builtin opinionated GitOps strategy. In this blog we are going to expand with a complete example and show how to enabled with a sample Camel application we build on an environment and we promote to another environment controlled with a gateway. The process will be the following: a development team (the “citizen integrator”?) is in charge to develop and test a given Camel application on a development environment.

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HOWTOSCAMEL K

Working with Apache Camel means dealing with over 300 components, dozens of Enterprise Integration Patterns, multiple DSL formats, and a rich set of configuration options. Keeping all of that in your head while writing integration routes is not trivial, and AI coding assistants have become a natural companion for this kind of work. The problem is that general-purpose LLMs lack deep, structured knowledge of Camel’s catalog, its component options, its URI syntax rules, and its security best practices.

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