Chris Phillips’ Blog - API, Integration and Governance

Alongside Aiden Gallagher I put together the API Connect WhitePaper for 2018.4.1

The document can be downloaded from https://developer.ibm.com/apiconnect/2019/02/08/api-connect-v2018-deployment-whitepaper-now-available/

I’ve recently been installing API Connect 2018.4.1X on a Kubernetes Container Service (IKS - IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service). I can highly recommend this experience as many of the complexities of setting up Kubernetes are handled by the Container Service. However some of the unique settings that APIC needs are not covered implicitly (or access to the Nodes as root is required, which is not possible via IKS) so some work is needed to manage these:

In January I finally broke 1500 views a month of my blog. Though this does not sound like a lot, it was my target for 2019.

However I was getting more annoyed with Medium. Medium is an amazing platform for articles and discovering content. However I wanted to have more control and to be able to play with more tools. With medium you are locked into their eco system. If you just want to produce content it is fine, but I wanted to play more.

I got bored flying back from Germany last week and so I tried to solve a problem our test team were hitting. They needed to whitelist access to the internet for all the pods of one application

In API Connect you can create your own user registries, these can be backed on to LDAP or be a local user registry.

There are two ways to delete users from a user registry. Both of these require that the user is no longer a member to any provider orgs. There is no way to remove a user from a user registry in the UI today.

One of my most viewed posts is https://medium.com/@cminion/api-connect-2018-cli-login-realm-39f24178bf99?source=your_stories_page---------------------------

In 2018.4.1.1 the term realm has been replaced with identify provider so the command is now

ICP 3.1.1 is locked down.

I used the following PSP to remove all the locked down settings. Please only use this for POC and POTs, and be aware you are weakening your environment.

Holiday Project Part 3

During my two weeks off of work I set myself the challenge to move as much of my home network infrastructure to Kubernetes as possible. My wife has often questioned “Why do you need any network Infrastructure, other then a wifi point?”. This article is still not going to address that question.

 Holiday Project Part 2

During my two weeks off of work I set myself the challenge to move as much of my home network infrastructure to Kubernetes as possible. My wife has often questioned “Why do you need any network Infrastructure, other then a wifi point?”. This article is still not going to address that question.