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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

Introduction to the CLI commands

In this section, you will learn how to use the basic CLI commands. The examples shown here have been initiated from a Mac but will be the same for Windows environments.

The CLI commands come with the API Connect toolkit. You can download the toolkit from the web on Fix Central (https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/). Alternatively, if your company has API Connect installed and you have access to API Manager, then you can download it from there. In fact, you are guaranteed to get the correct version if you do it in that manner:

Figure 2.18 – Downloading the toolkit from API Manager

For what reasons would you want to use the CLI? Most of the time, the CLI is incorporated within your DevOps pipeline. However, before you start learning how to call the CLIs, you should try to understand the capabilities that are available within the CLI. One thing you should be aware of is the target of your CLI commands. When executing...