Api gateway with identity server 4

Question

I create idenyity server 4 project, create api gateway and api resource My question Why need to handle jwt configuration in api gateway although I handled configuration jwt in api resource, I know that api resource communicate with identity server to validate token so why need again handle configuration jwt in api gateway

I wanna to remove jwt configuration api gateway because I think no need it

Answer 1

Yes ,you could remove api gateway. Add authentication to apigateway is just for convience if you want to switch to other authentication providers..Just place the AddAuthentication() code directly to api project and remove the gateway is all right.