Happy Goat for Life! Chris Phillips' Blog - API, Integration and Governance SME and Enthusiast
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API Connect with OPA

Today is the day I first learnt about OPA…. I am unsure how this has never come to my attention before. For those of you who are not aware OPA is a OpenPolicyAgent that provides a standardised ways to enforce policies, at Kubernetes, Envoys or Application level. Please go to https://openpolicyagent.org/ for more details.


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Protecting the routes out of the castle. Five advantages for exposing external APIs and services as internal APIs to your own developers.

Protecting APIs inside of your business so external consumers can be policed is a recognised and well understood pattern. However, what about APIs from outside of your business that that are consumed by your internal developers.



Useful Shell Commands - Update 1

I take a bit of pride in my one-line shell commands. However, I always end up starting from first principles each time. This article will be a living document that will contain the useful commands that I use. These will start simple and get more complex towards the end.


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If an API is published and no one is told, does it have value?

API Consumers, the only API Success Criteria

API Consumers are what dictate the value to an API Estate. This document goes through the key values of an API and how focusing on the consumer allows an API to be successful.


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API Connect - Rest call to retrieve APPs and Consumer Org information.

API Connect has two Rest Interfaces, one for consumer users the other for provider users. This article will go through how to retrieve applications with the provider (platform) api.


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API Connect decommissioning a gateway service

In API Connect you can have multiple gateway services. I have written about how to add one before but not how to decommission on that is no longer needed.


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API Connect registration without access to an external load balancer.

In API Connect 10.0.5.3+ and 10.0.6.0+ we can register sub systems without the need for an external load balancer. This is only possible for Kubernetes, OpenShift and CloudPak for Integration.


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API Governance Video

Quick video to show the initial API Governacne function.


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Deep Health check against the API Manager

Deep health check of the API Manager

It is important for a load balancer to know if the application is running. Deep health checks are used to validate that not only webpages are running but also the underlying application is working.


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API Connect's Native API Governance capability - Part 2 - enabling it

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In APIConnect 10.0.6.0 the governance function does not come automatically enabled. It must be enabled by modifying the CR.


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