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A pipeline is an ordered collection of tasks executed in sequence. This can be used to chain together tasks that are executed in order, e.g. call a service, transform its output from XML to JSON and return the response.

For more information on configuring pipelines for the Gateway see these pages Config - Pipelines.

What is a Task

A task is an action performed within a pipeline - many different tasks exist, ranging from branches (if...then...else) task, to validations, conversions, logging, tracing to service callouts, proxying requests or returning responses.

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