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I saw the following document.

https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/SecureGateway/index.html#sg_overview

In the summary near the end, it says "Provision the service and bind it to your app". But do I really need to bind the secure gateway service to my app? I could access the secure gateway's destination without binding the service.

sotoiwa
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I found the same when testing with DB2 and could access the gateway without binding, too.

Binding a service to an app is for the metadata and simplifies administration and deployment. If you delete an app, the related services will also be removed. If you try to delete a service bound to an app, there should be a warning. So what is in the documentation makes sense (at least this time...).

data_henrik
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You are correct. Since the Secure Gateway service does not actually use VCAP services there are no advantages to binding your application to the service instance.

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