Chris Phillips’ Blog - API, Integration and Governance

APIC can be fully driven by its CLI and Rest Interface

APIC can be fully driven by its CLI and Rest Interface

API proliferation is a real problem, though you plan to slowly ramp up your API development it is often the case that you have 20 to 50 to 100 APIs before you expect. This article provides a series of strategies to simplify API Discovery.

I have recently been asked by two customers how they can bulk register a number of user. There are two ways of doing this. Either by sending out an invitations or by creating the user accounts. Though both of these are listed below I recommend that only member invitations are used as it means that passwords are not exposed.

The API Connect White Paper I produced for v2018 was often described as the bible for new users and experienced users. 16 months on, I have had more than one customer asking me to sign their paper and lots of free beer I am humbled by the reception.

Today I am publishing the API Connect v10 White Paper this covers the new deployment patterns for v10 and all the good stuff we covered for v2018.

To publish OpenAPIv3 APIs into API Connect you need to add some IBM tags to add the assembly function and you need a product.

Thanks to Mike Coletta for helping me with a work around

If you are on a early version of helm and you try to run helm init on Kubernetes 1.16 or later you get the following error.

` Error: error installing: the server could not find the requested resource `

Trawler is a metrics exporter for IBM API Connect, allowing Kuberentes metrics to be sent to Prometheus.

The following error while registering the Portal or Analytics service means a step was missed when installing API Connect.

API Connect v10 was released on the 16 th of June 2020. This guide shows you the steps to take a vanilla IKS 1 - 17 to a fully working APIC v10.