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Workspace API Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 3, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Smaller Deployment Profiles Options for APIc sub-systems like wM API gateway

Based on client observations, the minimum deployment profiles for certain API Connect components—specifically the webMethods API Gateway—are still too large for non-production test environments, even though actual resource utilization in these environments remains very low.

For example, a client with 4 different domains and 3 non-prod environments (Dev, Test, UAT) has 1 API Manager component managing 12 separate webMethods API Gateway clusters (4 domains x 3 environments). Because the minimum deployment profile for the webMethods API Gateway is set to n1xc3.m6, they are required to provision 36 CPUs just for the test environments.

This high baseline profile drastically increases underlying software licensing costs, including Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) and VMware.

Requested Solution:
Provide smaller/lighter deployment profile options for the webMethods API Gateway so clients can manage non-production topology requirements much more efficiently.

Idea priority High

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