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Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By : Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
Book Image

Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By: Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal

Overview of this book

IBM API Connect enables organizations to drive digital innovation using its scalable and robust API management capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With API Connect's security, flexibility, and high performance, you'll be able to meet the needs of your enterprise and clients by extending your API footprint. This book provides a complete roadmap to create, manage, govern, and publish your APIs. You'll start by learning about API Connect components, such as API managers, developer portals, gateways, and analytics subsystems, as well as the management capabilities provided by CLI commands. You’ll then develop APIs using OpenAPI and discover how you can enhance them with logic policies. The book shows you how to modernize SOAP and FHIR REST services as secure APIs with authentication, OAuth2/OpenID, and JWT, and demonstrates how API Connect provides safeguards for GraphQL APIs as well as published APIs that are easy to discover and well documented. As you advance, the book guides you in generating unit tests that supplement DevOps pipelines using Git and Jenkins for improved agility, and concludes with best practices for implementing API governance and customizing API Connect components. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to transform your business by speeding up the time-to-market of your products and increase the ROI for your enterprise.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Digital Transformation and API Connect
5
Section 2: Agility in Development
15
Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Technical requirements

With this chapter, you will be referencing a number of DevOps tools as well as some open source projects. Minimally, you will need to have access to the APIC CLI toolkit as well as access to GitHub, a Jenkins server implementation, and RedHat Ansible. You learned about the APIC CLI in Chapter 2, Introducing API Connect. Your API Connect API Manager must have installed the test and monitor feature, either during initial installation or added on afterward.

You will find an API and product file as well as a Jenkinsfile in GitHub using the following URL: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Digital-Transformation-and-Modernization-with-IBM-API-Connect/tree/main/Chapter14

As you have progressed from Chapter 13, Using Test and Monitor for Unit Tests, you have some unit tests to incorporate into the pipelines defined in this chapter. These tests will make your learning of pipelines more realistic and valuable to your company.

Let's begin with an introduction...