Ibm Api Connect Developer Guide - Basics

REST API, OAuth, API Key, Basic Auth, API Manager, Catalog, Developer portal, Manage API, API Analytics

What you'll learn
Detailed knowledge on API lifecycle
Create API specification using built-in policies
Create Proxy endpoint
Create APIs, products and Plan
Create new version of the API and the Product
Basic Authentication security Implementation
API Key security Implementation
OAuth v2.0 security Implementation
Analyze the transactions

Requirements
Basic knowledge of JSON

Description
This course is designed to understand the complete API Lifecycle Management from the creation of the API to the Retirement of the API. The below listed are the life cycle stages in IBM API connect. Create an API/ProductDeployment/RunningAPI securityAPI Management(Monitoring/Deprecate/Retire etc)The implementation/configuration stage for each lifecycle is explained with the practicals. The focus of the course is to make understand the API Lifecycle concepts with proper examples and to build the integration flows using the policy actions.       The API Manager which is part of the Provider organization provides the UI to create, manage, secure, versioning, and retire the APIs. The APIs can be designed using the policies in the API manager or the APIs can be imported.  When the APIs are published, it is available in the Developer portal. The consumers of this API, register with the Developer portal by creating the application. The developer portal is part of the consumer organization.    API manager governs the API by creating the proxy endpoint and applying the different kinds of policies. Based on the business requirements, the required policies like rate limiting, Client ID enforcement, etc. can be configured. It has the option to create integration flows using different policy actions like a switch, log, XSLT, Invoke, map, etc.  It provides the Analytics feature to understand the transactions and the load on the system. The following security mechanisms are explained and implemented.Basic AuthenticationAPI key validationOAuth v2.0

Who this course is for:
Beginners and the experienced professionals who want to become expert in API management tool.