🚀 Unleash the Power of Your API Gateway with AI : A simple guide to create your first AI Gateway 🤖
Thomas Delafaye
In today’s world, AI is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology.
One of the most powerful applications of AI is our API gateways, where AI can enhance functionality, security, and user experience.
In this new article, we’ll walk you through the steps to create your first AI provider and context entities, enabling you to leverage AI in your API management.
Step-by-Step Guide to create your AI Provider and Context Entities
1. Create your Serverless Project
First, you need to sign up on Cloud APIM and create your first project to use our AI plugins.
If you haven't created one yet, follow these steps :
Log in to your Cloud APIM Serverless dashboard.
Click on "New project" and fill in with your project name.
2. Clone or Fork our Git Repository
Go to our AI plugins template repository https://github.com/cloud-apim/otoroshi-llm-extension-serverless-example
Clone it or fork it to your personal repository.
git clone https://github.com/cloud-apim/otoroshi-llm-extension-serverless-example.git
This repository will host all your Serverless project's configuration 😁
3. Choose Your AI Provider
Cloud APIM offers multiple providers to use through its plugins :
OpenAI
Azure OpenAI
Ollama
Mistral
Anthropic
Get your API Token in order to configure your AI Provider entity in your Cloud APIM Serverless project.
4. Set up your environment variables
Now let's secure your AI Provider API Token.
To do it we will use an environment variable defined as a secret variable for your project.
Go to your project's dashboard and click on 'Create a new environment variable' Name it, for example AI_PROVIDER_TOKEN and paste your AI Provider Token in the environment variable value box below the name.
And just save it !
5. Set Up Your AI Provider Entity
Now, navigate to your entities/ai.json file.
Open it and you will have to set up your provider name and its associated token.
Update the "provider" property, by default we set up "provider" : "openai"
Next, update the connection property by adding the API endpoint URL and the token property linked to your environment variable name.
For example : "token": "${environment.AI_PROVIDER_TOKEN}"
Finally, define the model you would like to use by updating options property.
Example with GPT 3.5 Turbo model : "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo"
Here is the example of the 'AiProvider' entity :
{
"_loc": {
"tenant": "default",
"teams": ["default"]
},
"id": "provider-openai",
"name": "OpenAI",
"description": "",
"metadata": {},
"tags": [],
"provider": "openai",
"connection": {
"base_url": "https://api.openai.com",
"token": "${environment.AI_PROVIDER_TOKEN}",
"timeout": 30000
},
"options": {
"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
"frequency_penalty": null,
"logit_bias": null,
"logprobs": null,
"top_logprobs": null,
"max_tokens": null,
"n": 1,
"presence_penalty": null,
"response_format": null,
"seed": null,
"stop": null,
"stream": false,
"temperature": 1,
"top_p": 1,
"tools": null,
"tool_choice": null,
"user": null
},
"kind": "AiProvider"
}
Do not forget to change and create your environment variable to use your AI provider's token.
In our demonstration case, we've chosen AI_PROVIDER_TOKEN as env variable name.
You could also save in your environment variables the API base URL such as https://api.openai.com for OpenAI or also the model you need to use.
6. Create the Context Entity
In your entities/ai.json file add an 'AiPromptContext' entity.
Here is an example of an 'AiPromptContext' entity :
{
"_loc": {
"tenant": "default",
"teams": ["default"]
},
"id": "ai-context",
"name": "AI Context",
"description": "",
"metadata": {},
"tags": {},
"messages": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "Cloud APIM is a french company that provides API Management as a Service through managed Otoroshi instances, Serverless projects, etc"
}
],
"kind": "AiPromptContext"
}
7. Create your API endpoint
Don't forget to add the LLM proxy plugin to your Context route !
Here is an OpenAPI example to use 'AiPromptContext' plugin.
{
"openapi": "3.1.0",
"info": {
"title": "AI Plugins for Cloud-APIM Serverless Projects",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "An easy getting started project template to use AI in your Cloud-APIM Serverless projects",
"contact": {
"name": "Cloud APIM Default contact address",
"url": "https://www.cloud-apim.com",
"email": "contact@cloud-apim.com"
},
"x-logo-none": {
"url": "https://www.cloud-apim.com/assets/logo/cloud-apim-logo-inverted.png"
}
},
"tags": [],
"paths": {
"/context": {
"post": {
"tags": [],
"summary": "",
"operationId": "getAIContext",
"x-cloud-apim-backend": {
"$ref": "#/components/x-cloud-apim-backends/mirror"
},
"x-cloud-apim-plugins": {
"$ref": "#/components/x-cloud-apim-plugins/context"
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"x-cloud-apim-plugins": {
"context": [
{
"enabled": true,
"debug": false,
"plugin": "cp:otoroshi.next.plugins.OverrideHost",
"include": [],
"exclude": [],
"config": {}
},
{
"enabled": true,
"debug": false,
"plugin": "cp:otoroshi_plugins.com.cloud.apim.otoroshi.extensions.aigateway.plugins.AiLlmProxy",
"include": [],
"exclude": [],
"config": {
"ref": "provider-openai"
}
},
{
"enabled": true,
"debug": false,
"plugin": "cp:otoroshi_plugins.com.cloud.apim.otoroshi.extensions.aigateway.plugins.AiPromptContext",
"include": [],
"exclude": [],
"config": {
"ref": "ai-context"
}
}
]
},
"x-cloud-apim-backends": {
"mirror": {
"targets": [
{
"hostname": "mirror.otoroshi.io",
"port": 443,
"tls": true
}
],
"root": "/",
"rewrite": false
}
}
}
}
8. Go further
You can go further by adding API Keys to secure your AI endpoints and use much more plugins provided by Cloud APIM.
Customization of your API endpoints is unlimited.
✨ Conclusion
Creating your first AI provider entity and context entity can significantly enhance the capabilities of your API gateway.
By integrating AI, you can provide smarter, more secure, and personalized experiences for your users.
Follow the steps outlined in this guide to get started on your AI journey and unlock the full potential of your API management.
To help you using our new set of plugins, we created a YouTube playlist containing all our AI Gateway videos.
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