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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

This chapter was all about customizing API Connect's user interfaces. We covered the customization of the Developer Portal and Analytics service.

In the Developer Portal sections, you learned how to make visual changes to the portal using the administrator role. As you know, the social aspects of your digital transformation are extremely important and having the ability to apply your branding and social interaction with your users is vital.

The important portal adjustments you learned included ensuring you have backup administrators, as well as learning how to develop a new sub-theme where you can change colors simply by adjusting the CSS. You also learned how to update the Welcome Banner. Since not all portals are external facing, you explored how to disable features such as blogs and forums as some organizations may not need them.

Another topic in this chapter that you learned was how to make simple changes to the Analytics service provided by API Connect. Analytics...