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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

Deployment models

When it comes to the hybrid cloud implementation for API Connect, you will find it difficult to find another API Management product that deploys to as many cloud platforms as IBM API Connect. In this section, you will be provided with information regarding how API Connect is packaged to run on-premises and on cloud platforms using various methods of deployment.

So, how is it that API Connect can be deployed to so many different destinations? Well, it all has to do with how the product was developed. Since version v2018, API Connect has to be built from the ground up as microservices running in containers. To manage these containers, IBM utilizes Kubernetes and, now, Red Hat OpenShift.

You'll start learning about the models, beginning with the most prominent one – the on-premises model.

The on-premises implementation

You have three choices when you want to implement API Connect on-premises within your data center:

  • VMware ESX
  • Bare...