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OpenAPI Overlays for Splitting Public and Internal Documentation

calendar_today July 21, 2026 domain programmableweb

Continuing my walk through the many use cases for OpenAPI overlays, I want to sit with one that hits close to how most teams actually ship docs. You have a single OpenAPI definition, but you need it to produce two documentation sites: a clean, branded public developer portal, and a richer internal portal that your own engineers and support folks live in. The internal one carries admin endpoints, debugging notes, and links to your ops runbooks.

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