Chris Phillips’ Blog - API, Integration and Governance

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.

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

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

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).

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