What is API Scout

As we’re all building and deploying microservices, there are a few common concerns that every developer and Ops has:

  • “where did I deploy that microservice?” 😩
  • “what is the API definition of that microservice again?“ 😟

When your deployment footprint grows, keeping track of all those deployed microservices on Kubernetes can become quite a challenge. Keeping the API documentation updated for developers, could become even more challenging. API Scout is an attempt to solve that challenge. API Scout helps you get up-to-date API docs to your developers by simply annotating your services in Kubernetes.

How it works

API Scout catalogs and documents your Kubernetes microservices to, ultimately, productize them as APIs using an API management platform. To do that it:

  • Automatically discover microservices with annotations
  • Generates beautiful pixel-perfect OAS/Swagger-based API Docs
  • Has first-class support for Kubernetes, PKS & OpenShift
  • Is 100% Open Source, so free to use & build on