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.
publication date
2022-01-14
what you will learn
Use API Connect to create, manage, and publish customer-centric, API-led solutions
Run CLI commands to manage API configuration and deployments
Create REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs securely using OpenAPI
Support OAuth and JWT security methods using policies
Create custom policies to supplement security
Apply built-in policies to transform payloads
Use CLIs and unit testing hooks within DevOps pipelines
Find out how to customize Analytics dashboards and Portal User Interface
key features
Explore techniques to design and deliver valuable customer-centric APIs using API Connect * Manage your APIs with improved security and optimal performance across many channels * Uncover hidden capabilities that help improve business agility and management within your API ecosystem
approach
Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect provides a proven implementation approach towards managing the API ecosystem within your enterprise using powerful capabilities and different components of API Connect. You will be presented with practical examples while creating, securing, and publishing APIs that are scalable, robust, and offer an intuitive consumer experience.
audience
This book is for developers and architects who want to achieve digital transformation using IBM API Connect and successfully execute the strategic roadmap of enterprise modernization while effectively managing their API ecosystem. A solid understanding of what RESTful services and APIs can do and where to implement API security is necessary to get started. Experience in application development and basic knowledge of microservices, container orchestration, and cloud environments will help you to get the most out of this book.
short description
Developers and architects looking to work with API Connect will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to API-led digital transformation. The book provides real-world business scenarios to help you create, secure, and deploy APIs so that they can be socialized with consumers, managed in the DevOps pipelines, and monitored for utilization.
subtitle
A practical guide to developing, deploying, and managing high-performance and secure hybrid-cloud APIs
keywords
API design, Digital transformation book, API test, API book, Digital Modernization, API Management, DevOps, SOAP, FHIR REST
Product ISBN
9781801070799
