Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

Learn how to create APIs that utilise multiple services and discover how you can use custom code on Apigee.

COURSE OVERVIEW

3 day course
Private
Certificate of Attendance
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This course will teach you how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAI specifications to document them. During the session, we’ll cover the API life cycle and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of it. You’ll discover how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how they are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.

Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you’ll learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform.

Our Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course is available as a private training session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom, at our training centre in The Shard, or at a location of your choice in the UK.

What you’ll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts
Describe API products, API product strategies, and how to publish APIs to a developer portal
Discuss the role of user authentication and authorization and the importance of API security
Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts
Describe the value and use of API analytics
Interact with the Apigee API Platform

Describe basic concepts and capabilities of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, REST and Anthos
Describe Apigee terminology and organizational model based on Apigee product capabilities
Identify capabilities available to secure, scale, and manage APIs and API products
Discuss the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation, traffic management, caching, and fault handling
Describe the deployment options for the Apigee platform

Course agenda

Module 1: Apigee Overview

Understand the placement and role of API management in modern application development
Define Apigee API Platform logical components and organizational structure
Differentiate between Apigee flexible deployment models Explain API lifecycle

Module 2: API-First & OpenAPI Specifications

Describe the fundamentals of REST API design
Understand the value of API-first development and how to apply it
Discuss OpenAPI specifications and their use in the context of API-first development

Module 3: API Proxies

Define the building blocks of APIs and API proxies
Describe how API proxies work and how capabilities such as flows, policies, route rules, environment groups, and target servers play a role
Describe how APIs are exposed
Describe how API proxies connect to backend systems
Generate an API proxy using an OpenAPI specification
Run an API proxy in different environments without changing the target URL in the proxy code
Route target endpoints using route rules and troubleshoot proxies using the Apigee debug tool

Module 4: API Products

Define API products and API product strategies
Understand the role of developers, applications, and API keys in API management
Describe the API publication process
Understand API responses and status codes for REST API
Publish APIs as products

Module 5: Authentication, Authorization & OAuth

Discuss the importance of API security
Understand the role of user authentication and authorization
Gain deep understanding of OAuth (access tokens, refresh tokens, common patterns for all grant types) and its application in the context of API design and management
Discuss federated identity and the use of JSON Web Tokens and API proxies
Apply the OAuthV2 policy to allow apps to access the retail API proxy by providing an OAuth token

Module 6: Content, Transport & Internal Security

Explore platform capabilities for protecting against content-based attacks
Discuss how to protect sensitive data using KVMs, data masking, and private variables
Protect an API proxy against content attacks and malicious requests
Prevent internal users from getting unauthorized access to sensitive data
Apply a private variable and a debug mask to hide data when debugging an API proxy

Module 7: Mediation

Understand the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation and fault handling
Describe implementation patterns and policies for JSON, XML, and SOAP
Understand extensibility options using Service Callouts, JavaScript, and Java
Explore development practices and capabilities used to reuse, share, and enforce execution of flows and policies

Module 8: Traffic Management

Describe when and how to use traffic management
Evaluate options and applicable use cases for rate limiting with spike arrests and quotes
Understand caching strategy and how to apply it

Module 9: API Publishing

Describe API publishing strategy and process
Expand understanding of REST API design by discussing API versioning
Describe the role of developer portals in the API lifecycles and as a critical part of API strategy

Module 10: Logging & Analytics

Discuss available options for message logging
Understand the value and use of API analytics

Module 11: Advanced Topics

Discuss recommended practices and tooling for Apigee offline development and CI / CD
Explore the Apigee deployment options

Who it's for

This course is suitable for developers, architects, or engineers responsible for the solutioning, design, implementation, or management of APIs, API products, or digital products that leverage APIs.