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There are many types of APIs available, I propose to reference these as flavours. In this article I am going to talk about the three key flavours.
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| Four strategies to version APIs |
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Originally published October 16, 2017 To manage and maintain any runtime system, you need a comprehensive versioning strategy. Without a clear strategy in place, how do you know which services and APIs are deployed and which version to use? This article highlights four strategies to help you manage API and service interfaces and implementations. It also presents the advantages and disadvantages for each strategy. |
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| IBM API Connect WhitePaper in Physical Form |
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| Changing Provider Organisation Owner in APIConnect 2018 [Guest Post by Nick Cawood] |
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In API Connect 2018.4.1.X the Management UIs do not support changing the owner of a Provider Organisation. Therefore to change the ownership the APIC Toolkit should used, and specifically the orgs transfer owner commands. |
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| Enabling the WebUI in DataPower in Kubernetes for APIConnect 2018 [Guest Post by Nick Cawood] |
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To access the DataPower UI with API Connect 2018.4.1.X values need to be set during the installation of the Gateway subsystem. These values are set using the extra-values-file parameter of the apicup tool:
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| Activate and Test Application Authentication via Mutual Authentication (mTLS) in APIC 2018.4.1.5 using DP API Gateway [Guest Post by JP Schiller] |
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Important: This feature is only available since 2018.4.1.5 fixpack for the API Gateway. v5C Gateway supported this earlier. Purpose is to document the steps needed to authenticate a subscribed Application (app) API call using Mutual Authentication (mTLS) with the Datapower API Gateway. |
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| Setting Object Storage values for Backup Parameters in API Connect 2018.4.1.X [Guest Post by Nick Cawood] |
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In a Container Service like IKS Object Storage can be selected as the back storage destination for the Management and Portal subsystems. Knowledge Center contains guidance for the parameters for the backups (set with apicup tool) but for clarity here is some guidance on how these translate to the values you need to extract from your Container Service and use. |
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 | Enable Log Rotation in Kubernetes |
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This week we had a number of issues with diagnosing a customer system because the kubernetes logs were rotating far too quickly. We were unable to off box the logs to an external source for non tecbnical reasons. |
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| API Connect WhitePaper 2018.4.1.x |
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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/ |
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| Setting vm.max_map_count on Kubernetes [Guest Post by Nick Cawood] |
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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: |
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