Replace Custom Scripts APIs with OCI API Gateway

Summary

Update a common B2C Service custom script use case with a more secure and performant solution that uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Content

INTRODUCTION

Oracle B2C Service extensibility is improving by leveraging capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  The suite of tools that OCI provides allows you to build new customizations in much more flexible ways than previously possible with B2C Service extensibility.  In this guide, we will explore using the OCI API Gateway and OCI Functions as a replacement for providing custom API endpoints using custom scripts or Customer Portal.

B2C Service customers need custom API endpoints to extend B2C Service capabilities in circumstances where an external service needs to call B2C Service but cannot use the REST APIs.  Typically, these are external webhooks that need to call B2C Service such as those provided by SMS and telephony vendors.