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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)
1
Section 1: Digital Transformation and API Connect
5
Section 2: Agility in Development
15
Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Customizing the Developer Portal

As you learned in Chapter 1, Digital Transformation and Modernization with API Connect, social interaction in digital transformation can bring valuable marketing value and product awareness but on the flip side, this social interaction can also bring negative attention. That is why customizing your Developer Portal is as important as developing APIs. In this section, you will learn about the beneficial features provided by API Connect and its Drupal implementation of the Developer Portal. You'll begin by learning about what comes out of the box with Drupal 9 and how API Connect has hooks to make the experience a simple and natural experience for the developer. The out-of-the-box theme of the API Connect Drupal Developer Portal is shown here:

Figure 15.1 – API Connect Developer Portal default view

It is rather bland, but does show the API components that your consumers will be looking to discover and subscribe to...