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Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By : Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
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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
5
Section 2: Agility in Development
15
Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, host names, userids, catalogs, and organizations. Here is an example: "To run the actual tests, you will use the same URL, Key, and Secret and just change the path from /test to /test/run."

A parameter block is set as follows:

<api manager host> = api-manager-ui.apicisoa.com 
<userid> = isoadeveloper
<catalog> = sandbox 
<organization> = middleware

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

curl -v -k -X POST 
  -F "product=@/home/[user]/jenkins/workspace/basic-product_1.0.0.yaml;type=application/yaml" 
  -F "openapi=@/home/[user]/jenkins/workspace/basic-test_1.0.0.yaml;type=application/yaml" 
  -H "Authorization: Bearer [GENERATED TOKEN]" 
  -H 'Accept: application/json' 
  https://[apimserver]/api/catalogs/[organization name]/[catalog]/publish

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

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