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API Connect - Fishing you Pod metrics into Prometheus with APIConnect Trawler

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


API CONNECT

APIConnect v10 - Error while registering portal or analytics service.

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


API CONNECT

API Connect v10 - Install on IKS with IBM Entitlement Registry

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.


API CONNECT

API Connect v10 - DataPower Pods are not created after Gateway CR is applied

When installing gateway sub component this can fail if stale webhooks are not cleaned up first.


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API Connect v10 - unable to delete namespace

Deleting an entire namespace to clean up a failed installed is not an uncommon action.


API CONNECT

API Connect v10 - unable to delete mangement cr
Guest Post by Luke Raus Chris Phillips

When deploying API Connect it is possible that the postgres does not start due to user error. (Most commonly due to invalid image registry url).


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APIConnect v10 unable to load images into registry because of x509: certificate signed by unknown authority - Sellf signed certificate

When using the image-tool to load images into your docker registry with a self signed certificate you will see the following error.


OPENSHIFT

OpenShift enabling the Image Registry route and pushing image.

When installing OpenShift 4.3+ there is no default route created for the image registry. Therefore we are unable to load in images from outside of the cluster.


API CONNECT

Calling DB2's Rest interface from API Connect
Guest Post by Lars Fanebost

Lars Fanebost put together this awesome guide on calling DB2 from inside of API connect. This is taken from https://github.com/lfanebost/api-connect-exposing-db-data-pub/


API CONNECT

Custom Client ID and Client Secret values

From API Connect V5 and onwards users have been able to customise the Client ID and Client Secret values on applications. But this is a rarely known gem. This article will explains the API calls required to do this.


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