Solutions
Modernize the API estate without rebuilding every consumer
80%
less manual policy work
Automated translation of auth, quota, and mediation bundles.
0
planned downtime
Shadow + weighted cutover with rollback to the prior data plane.
100%
product continuity
Developer apps and keys survive promotion to ForgeCrux.
4
gateways after go-live
API, AI, MCP, and Agent on the same control plane.
Enterprise architecture
API modernization factory
Inventory legacy gateways, compile policy into ForgeCrux, dual-run, then cut over with rollback—without rewriting consumers.
API modernization factory
ForgeCruxProbing Deeper, Stacking Precision1. Legacy estate
Existing API management
Proxies, products, KV maps
Specs & IdP
OpenAPI, WSDL, SSO
Traffic samples
Access logs, traces
2. ForgeCrux factory
Discovery graph
Dependencies & heatmaps
Policy compiler
Auth, quota, mediation
Git / Terraform
Wave artifacts + tests
3. Dual-run
Shadow traffic
Same hostname, split
Diff engine
Status, payload, SLA
Weighted cutover
Instant rollback
4. Production plane
API Gateway
Products & keys intact
AI / MCP / Agent
Same control plane
Unchanged backends
SOAP, REST, SaaS
No consumer rewrite
Keep hostnames, products, and credentials stable so partners and apps do not reintegrate.
Policy fidelity
Auth, quota, threat protection, and mediation land as shared flows—not tribal knowledge in tickets.
One plane after go-live
The same gateway that replaced legacy API management is ready for LLM, MCP, and agent traffic.
Key Capabilities
Complete API Modernization capabilities
Everything required to publish, secure, mediate, observe, and operate api modernization workloads on ForgeCrux.
Enterprise uses
Who modernizes on ForgeCrux and what they keep intact.
- Platform teams replacing legacy API management without a consumer rewrite
- Integration architects sequencing domain-by-domain cutover waves
- Partner ecosystems that must keep keys, products, and portal docs
- Security teams mapping auth, quota, and threat policies 1:1
- SRE proving SLO parity during dual-run before DNS weights move
- AI CoE enabling the same products on AI, MCP, and Agent gateways after go-live
Installation & deployment
Stand up the factory beside the estate you already run.
- Deploy ForgeCrux API Gateway data plane in VPC, Kubernetes, or on-prem
- SaaS, hybrid, or self-hosted control plane for org and environment topology
- Read-only connectors to legacy admin APIs, Git, and traffic archives
- Helm, Terraform, and GitOps for wave artifacts
- Non-prod dual-run path before any production hostname moves
- Multi-region active-active for the target data plane
Setup & onboarding
From inventory to the first production wave.
- Connect IdP, environments, and observability exporters
- Crawl proxies, products, apps, shared flows, and target servers
- Build the dependency graph and traffic heatmap
- Compile a pilot product into ForgeCrux shared flows + contract tests
- Shadow traffic on a GET-heavy wave; compare status, payload, and SLA
- Weighted cutover with instant rollback; then decommission per SLO sign-off
Security during cutover
No gap in auth, secrets, or audit while two planes run.
- Preserve OAuth, API keys, and mTLS to targets
- Migrate KV maps and certs into the ForgeCrux vault
- Same threat-protection and schema policies on dual-run
- RBAC so only platform admins can change cutover weights
- Immutable audit of shadow diffs, promotions, and rollbacks
- No planned downtime; consumers keep existing hostnames
Inventory and dependency intelligence
See the real estate before you move it.
- Proxy, product, app, developer, and target-server inventory
- Virtual host, base path, and environment mapping
- Shared-flow and policy reuse graphs
- Secret and key-value map classification
- Traffic heatmaps to sequence cutover waves
- Orphaned proxy and unused product detection
Translate, test, and promote
Turn legacy config into production-grade ForgeCrux.
- Auth, quota, cache, CORS, and threat-protection mapping
- SOAP/XML mediation and assign-message equivalents
- Generated contract tests from OpenAPI and recorded traffic
- Environment promotion with revision history
- Terraform and GitOps for every wave
- Rollback snapshots of DNS, weights, and deployments
Data flows
How requests, policies, and telemetry move through ForgeCrux in this solution.
Discovery data flow
How configuration and runtime evidence enter the modernization factory.
Export / crawl
Admin APIs • Git • Files
Normalize
Canonical proxy model
Graph
Products ↔ targets ↔ apps
Risk score
Auth gaps • Hot paths
Wave plan
Domain cutover batches
Cutover data flow
Production packets during dual-run and weighted shift.
Client
Existing hostname
Edge / DNS
Weight or header split
ForgeCrux
Policy chain
Target
Unchanged backends
Diff engine
Status • payload • SLA
How teams run API Modernization on ForgeCrux
Wave 0 — foundation
Stand up orgs, environments, IdP, observability, and a non-prod dual-run path.
Wave 1 — read APIs
Move low-risk GET-heavy products first; prove analytics parity.
Wave 2 — mutating APIs
Idempotency, spike arrest, and SOAP façades with extra soak time.
Wave 3 — partner products
Preserve keys, portal docs, and SLAs; notify consumers only if hostnames change.
Wave 4 — AI-ready
Expose the same products to AI and agent gateways with extra policies.
Steady state
Decommission the legacy data plane after SLO and audit sign-off.
Related Products
API Gateway
ForgeCrux API Gateway covers the full API lifecycle: proxies, products, policies, developer portal, analytics, monetization, hybrid runtime, and promotion across environments—on the same control plane as AI, MCP, and agents.
Control Plane
ForgeCrux One is the enterprise control plane for APIs, AI models, MCP tools, and agents. Platform, security, and SRE teams use it to install, configure, govern, and operate every gateway from one catalog, one policy engine, and one audit trail—across SaaS, hybrid, and air-gapped footprints.
Observability
ForgeCrux One Observability is the telemetry plane for APIs, LLMs, MCP tools, and agents. Platform, SRE, security, and FinOps teams ingest logs, metrics, and traces from every gateway hop, then act from one dashboard—maps, alerts, incident tools, and audit replay included.
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