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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
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Section 2: Agility in Development
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Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Summary

Building a DevOps pipeline is a key component in driving digital transformation. In this chapter, you learned about a number of products that help drive your DevOps initiative. You learned about Git and how it manages version control and participates in Pipeline as Code. You also learned that you can use a tool such as Jenkins to drive your DevOps. Jenkins provides many features and multiple plugins that help make the effort easier. A critical component of the API Connect DevOps process involves using the API Connect CLIs. You learned that those commands need to be installed on all Jenkins nodes and that a tool such as Ansible Automation could help manage the updates to the CLI.

From a publishing standpoint, you also learned that you can use the Platform APIs that come with API Connect. What you learned about the Platform APIs is an alternative way to run an APIC configuration. Whenever you see a feature within the API Manager GUI, you now know that there is a supporting...