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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
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Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Understanding API Connect and Hybrid Cloud

In Chapter 2, Introducing API Connect, we discussed the deployment models of API Connect. IBM has placed considerable emphasis on the hybrid cloud and that can't be any more apparent than its acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion. IBM's hybrid cloud strategy and its Watson AI technology are becoming a differentiator in the corporate hybrid architectural strategy and Digital Transformation journey.

To be successful in hybrid cloud, customers will be looking for a common platform and the ability to continue integration with new cloud applications and on-premise systems of record.

Let's begin with the OpenShift common platform from Red Hat.

OpenShift

Is there a notion of an open hybrid cloud architecture? With containerization and open source Kubernetes, you may believe that there is, but Kubernetes in each cloud provider has its challenges. There are nuances in every implementation and Kubernetes is a huge paradigm...