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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

Chapter 2: Introducing API Connect

In the previous chapter, you were briefly introduced to API Connect and how it can support your adoption of digital transformation and modernization. Now is a good time to learn, in greater detail, the full capabilities of API Connect along with specific highlights in terms of how it can impact digital transformation and/or your modernization effort.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • The components of API Connect
  • Deployment models
  • Introduction to the Command-Line Interface (CLI) commands

Some of the new skills you will learn in this chapter include the following:

  • Properly describe the components of API Connect and how they provide you with all the tools you need to successfully create, manage, secure, and govern your APIs.
  • Understand the different deployment options of API Connect to fit your digital strategy.
  • Learn how to run CLI commands that perform the API configuration...