Azure for Developers: API Management

Explore the features available in Azure API Management. Learn how to set up and publish a robust set of APIs, taking into account implications for security, performance, and more.

Introduction

• Azure API management
• What you should know

1. Azure API Management (APIM)

• What is Azure APIM?
• Create an Azure APIM instance
• Publish a REST API to Azure APIM
• Publish an Azure function app from Visual Studio Code
• Create a blank http API in APIM
• Challenge: Integrate Azure function to APIM from Visual Studio Code
• Solution: Integrate Azure function to APIM from Visual Studio Code

2. APIM Products, Subscriptions, and Versioning

• APIM products
• APIM subscriptions
• APIM revisions and versions
• Challenge: Create a new version for an updated API
• Solution: Create a new version for an updated API

3. APIM Developer Portal

• Developer portal
• Challenge: Create a custom group and add users
• Solution: Create a custom group and add users
• Customize the developer portal
• Authorize developer portal to Active Directory users

4. Debugging and Monitoring APIs

• Debugging APIs
• Monitor APIs with Application Insights
• Challenge: Create a alert rule for a response threshold
• Solution: Create a alert rule for a response threshold

5. APIM Policies

• APIM policies
• Mock API responses
• Transform API responses
• Challenge: Create a rate limit policy
• Solution: Create a rate limit policy
• Enable Caching for API calls
• Authorize access to API calls

Conclusion

• Next steps