IBM API Connect

IBM API Connect

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Benefits of Upgrading to API Connect v10



Nick Cawood

Integration Expert Labs

IBM UK

Chris Phillips

WW SWAT Team

IBM UK

August 2020

Chris Phillips

WW SWAT Team

IBM UK

Delivered by

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Nick Cawood

▪ API Connect Consultant

▪ Integration Expert Labs pan-European team

▪ Formerly based in Bristol UK, now working from Bath, UK

▪ Consultant since 1999

▪ Delivering Services for IBM for over a decade

▪ 3 years in Integration

▪ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcawood/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcawood/

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Chris Phillips

▪ IBM Master Inventor

▪ API Guru

▪ Author of the API Connect White Paper for v10 and v2018

▪ IBM Cloud Integration Architect for the WW SWAT Team

▪ IBM 12.5 years

▪ 11 years in Integration

▪ Blog: http://chrisphillips-cminion.github.io

▪ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjphillips

▪ Twitter: @cminion

http://chrisphillips-cminion.github.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjphillips

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▪ Introduction to API Connect on Containers

▪ What’s new in API Connect v10?

▪ API Connect v5 to API Connect v10 upgrade overview

▪ Expert Labs offerings

▪ Summary

▪ Questions

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Introduction to API Connect

API Connect on Containers

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What is IBM API Connect?

Create

Automatically create and test APIs to

expose data, microservices, enterprise

applications and SaaS services.

Secure

Easily apply built-in and extensible policies

to secure, control and mediate the delivery

of APIs with unmatched scale.

Manage

Rapidly publish, lifecycle govern, socialize,

analyze, monitor and monetize APIs with

built-in capabilities.

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The Scalable API Platform

A complete, modern and intuitive API

lifecycle platform to create, securely

expose and manage APIs across clouds

to power digital applications

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API Connect Key Capabilities

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Manage APIs through the API Lifecycle

• Define & Import REST or SOAP APIs to

enable clients to evolve their SOA tier

• Package APIs into Products and tailor them

to target specific consumer markets

• Publish and Promote across different

environments to align with DevOps practices

• Manage and Control API Lifecycle and

versioning from staging to deprecation to

meet corporate governance needs

• Subscription and Community

management to grow go-to-market channels

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Product Components of API Connect

Create Run

ManageSecure

Management ServiceAPI Gateway Service

Developer Portal

Development Containerized runtime

The Developer Portal enables API

providers to build a customized

developer portal for their

application developers.

Manage the operations of the in

the API Cloud. The Management

service also provide analytic

functions that collect and store

information about APIs and API

users.

A collection of runtime environments

for APIs that have been createdThe Development environment for creating APIs

and defining the characteristics of the API

exposure.

Process and manage security protocols and stores

relevant user and appliance authentication data.

The API Gateway also provide assembly functions

that enable APIs to integrate with various

endpoints, such as databases or HTTP-based

endpoints.

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API Connect v10

API Connect v10 can be deployed as follows:

▪ API Connect One-Click Install on Cloud Pak for Integration

CP4i running on OpenShift OCP, API Connect v10 deployed by CP4i

▪ On VMware, via OVA

Each OVA contains Kubernetes

▪ API Connect containers deployed on Kubernetes

Running on any platform Kubernetes supports

▪ API Connect containers deployed on a Container Service

Any Container Service that allows API Connect containers to be deployed

API Connect v10 is deployed using Kubernetes Operators

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API Manager console for API providers

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API Manager allows users to develop, test run, manage & secure APIs

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Create new APIs or import existing APIs and use API Connect’s Assembly policies

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Secure &Control APIs

➢ API Gateway to enforce API policies at runtime

➢ Comprehensive set of built-in security, traffic

management & mediation policies

Add policies to the API for Enforcement using the graphical Assembly

➢ Ability to define user-defined policies using

JavaScript (Gateway Script) & XSLT

➢ Add Security Definitions to an API

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Quickly test your assembly flow while developing

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Analyze APIs

➢ Analyze API runtime usage data to gain visibility and insight

✓ Powered by open source Elastic stack

✓ Understand API performance including call volume, error

rates & response times

✓ Create custom dashboards & visualizations

➢ Analytics for both API provider and API consumer

➢ Enables chargeback or billing for API consumption

➢ Easily offload analytics to popular systems like Splunk & others

using Syslog, Kafka, Elasticsearch, HTTP

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Developer Portal for API Consumers

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Socialize APIs

➢ Enable self-service, company-branded

developer portal for your API consumers

✓ Built-on proven, open source Drupal

content management system to

customize developer experience

➢ API consumers can browse available APIs,

view details, test, register their application,

provision keys & view analytics on usage

➢ Social portal with blogs, forums, ratings

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Manage API Connect with Cloud Manager

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API Connect Cloud Manager

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Create Topology for Gateway, Portal and Analytics

Create Provider Organizations

Add Resources and manage Settings

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What’s New in API Connect v10

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#APILedInnovation

Continued Innovations for API Lifecycle

v5

Established as market

leader with API lifecycle

innovation with ability to

Create, Run, Secure and

Manage APIs

v10v2018

Consistence with Choice

for Multi-cloud and

Hybrid cloud deployment

through cloud-native

microservice

architecture

API Led Innovation

driving new business

and technical models for

modern cloud native

development

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Why API Connect v10?

▪ GraphQL API support

▪ 2-site High Availability support

▪ Up to 10x performance improvement over APIC v5

▪ Built-in Test & Debug feature for API development

▪ Increased product stability and workload horizontal scalability over APIC v2018

▪ User-interface Search functionality for draft Products & APIs

▪ Developer Portal command-line tool and APIs now available

▪ Integrated Automated API behaviour testing application

▪ Certified on OpenShift

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Optimize Access to Distributed Data with GraphQL Endpoints

▪ Next-Gen evolution of Gateway technology

beyond Web services and REST with

GraphQL support

▪ Secure and Manage APIs with GraphQL

backends, efficiently managing compute

intensive services

▪ Threat Protection against cyberattacks using

advance query complexity analysis to prevent

API-based attacks

▪ Rate Limit GraphQL queries with consumer

plans based on number of API calls &

backend compute time

#APILedInnovation

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Automated API behavior testing enables rapid development

▪ Rapid API Development with built-in Test

and Debug of API assembly

▪ Automated API testing and monitoring

designed for developers and teams

▪ No code necessary, visual composer to

create tests in <1 minute

▪ Integrate into CI/CD for automation using

pre-built plugins like Jenkins

▪ Continuous performance & behavior

monitoring of APIs deployed anywhere in the

world

#APILedInnovation

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Accelerate development with Test and Debug of API Execution

▪ Simple Test UX to test APIs

including client credentials, OAuth

etc.

▪ Accelerate development through

visual representation of the API

execution flow for simple tracing

▪ Debug each assembly activity by

viewing input and output

▪ Optimize policy execution through

performance driven insights

▪ Iteratively develop, test and

debug with intuitive user

experience

#APILedInnovation

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Improved resiliency for continuous availability

▪ Enterprise secure and cloud native install

experience with Operators

▪ High resiliency with two data-center

clustering mapping to your infrastructure

▪ Self-healing for continuous availability of

the microservices within API Connect

▪ Simplified and automated backup &

restore reducing operations overhead

▪ Accelerate upgrades with future-ready

over-the-air-upgrades

@RedHat: Operators systematize

human knowledge as code and

do this in a scalable, repeatable,

standardized fashion. This

results in improved resiliency

while reducing the tax and

burden on IT teams. It also

accelerates Multi-cloud adoption

by simplifying and making ops

consistent*

#APILedInnovation

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Improved Productivity with Modern User Experience

#APILedInnovation

▪ Simple and Enhanced user experience through open design language

▪ Faster access to resources through easy search and discovery

▪ Consistent user experience across Cloud Pak for Integration and IBM Product Portfolio

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API Connect v5 to API Connect v10 Upgrade Overview

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Parallel V10 SetupMigration Utility on Laptop

API Connect

v5.0.8.7+ API Connect

Migration Utility

Current v5 Setup

Overview of Upgrade: OVA to OVA

API Connect

v10.0.0.0+(Latest)

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API Connect

v5.0.8.7+ API Connect

Migration Utility

Current v5 Setup

Overview of Upgrade: OVA to K8s

Clients can upgrade from an v5 OVA to a V10 k8s setup using the migration tooling

API Connect

v10.0.0.0+(Latest)

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API Connect

v5.0.8.7+

API Connect

v10.0.0.0+(Latest)

API Connect

Migration Utility

Current v5 Setup

V5 to V10 Upgrade Details

Simple 5 step upgrade process guided through easy to use Migration tooling with

flexibility to map to customer future needs

1 Database Extract

2Unpack &

Map

3 Port

4 Validate & Push

5 Smoke Test

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1

2

3

4

Database Extract

Unpack and Map

Port

Validate & Push

• Export configuration on v5.0.8.7+ as

a backup including APIs/Products etc.

using the enhanced CLI

• (Optional) If using Portal Delegated

User Registry (PDUR), use Developer

Portal CLI to export data

5 Smoke Test

V5 to V10 Upgrade: Step 1 of 5

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1

2

3

4

Database Extract

Unpack and Map

Port

Validate & Push

• Extract the backup to human-

readable YAML files using Migrate

Assist

• Flexibility to map to new resources

to reflect any changes on V10 setup

topology through mapping files, if

desired

5 Smoke Test


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1

2

3

4

Database Extract

Unpack and Map

Port

Validate & Push

• Ability to migrate to the more highly

performant API Gateway Service via

[NEW] Port-to-APIGW command

• Requires mapping file for gateway

service(s)

• Mandatory step if client wants to

migrate custom policies to new

APIGW

5 Smoke Test


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1

2

3

4

Database Extract

Unpack and Map

Port

Validate & Push

• Validate V10 prerequisites are in

place

• Validate the mapping and

prerequisites using Migrate Assist

• Migrate / Load the APIs and the

configuration to V10 setup

5 Smoke Test


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1

2

3

4

Database Extract

Unpack and Map

Port

Validate & Push

• Smoke test the API endpoints to

ensure successful migration

• Finalize testing by validating user

access, on-boarding etc.

5 Smoke Test


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AMU –Paths to V5C vs APIGW on V10

#APILedInnovation

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Artifacts supported by AMU: port-to-apigw–V10

#APILedInnovation

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#APILedInnovation

What is Migrated

• Provider Organization content (the Provider Organization must pre-exist in v10)

• Catalog content

• Spaces content

• Products (in whatever step of the product lifecycle they exist)

• APIs in drafts

• OAuth Providers

• TLS Profiles

• User Registries

• Custom Policies

• Consumer Organizations

• Product Subscriptions

• All members / users

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Expert Labs Offerings

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Why IBM Cloud Integration Expert Labs?

Expedite the

successful

deployment of

IBM’s Cloud

Integration

Solutions

Through our

deep technical

expertise,

methodology,

repeatable

patterns, learning

services and

mentoring

Faster time to value from your IBM Cloud Integration Solutions

Our purpose How we

drive success

How you

benefit

IBM Cloud © 2020 IBM Corporation

Contact us through email: [email protected]

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Upgrade to API Connect v10 with IBM Expert Labs

▪ Modernize an API environment by migrating to the latest APIC product version

▪ Optimize an environment through new API Connect productivity-enhancing features

▪ Minimize potential migration activity impact to existing services by working with IBM

Expert Labs

▪ IBM Expert Labs are ready to help plan and

migrate existing API Connect v5 deployments to

the latest IBM API Connect version:

• Create an Upgrade Plan for an upgrade to APIC v10 with the

IBM Expert Lab Upgrade Assessment workshop.

• IBM Expert Labs can carry out the Upgrade Plan to migrate an

existing APIC v5 deployment to a new APIC v10 deployment

by utilizing the APIC Migration Utility.

• IBM Expert Labs can additionally ensure any custom content

from an existing APC v5 deployment is migrated to a new APIC

v10 deployment.

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IBM Expert Labs Service Offerings:

▪ API Connect Upgrade Assessment (AP124)

Workshop sessions with an IBM Expert Labs Consultant to assess an existing API Connect v5

deployment in order to create a Migration Plan to upgrade to API Connect v10.

▪ Installation and Configuration for API Connect v10 (ORS233)

API Connect v10 deployment by IBM Expert Lab Consultants.

▪ API Connect Upgrade (AP224)

Migrate content from an existing API Connect v5 deployment to

the new API Connect v10 deployment using the Migration Plan

created during an API Connect Upgrade Assessment.

Upgrade to API Connect v10 with IBM Expert Labs

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Summary

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Summary

▪ API Connect v10 and new features

▪ Upgrade an API Connect v5 deployment to API Connect v10

▪ Expert Labs offerings to help with the upgrade

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Discussions and Questions…..

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Thank you!



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