You can lint your OpenAPI artifacts in your CI/CD pipelines, but if you aren’t actually using it to configure your API gateway, and then validating the outputs of the configuration are in alignment with your API governance goals—-it is all just talk. It will be different with each API gateway, but AWS API Gateway allows you to configure your APIs using OpenAPI, but then you can also retrieve an updated OpenAPI output from the gateway with the following potential OpenAPI extensions applied...
