Building an Enterprise API for Advanced Azure Developers

Course details

Learn how to use Azure API Management and build secure and scalable enterprise-level APIs that can be discovered and consumed internally or by third-party applications. In this course for advanced Azure developers, instructor Nertil Poci reveals what Azure API Management service is, the needs it meets, and the features it offers. He explains how to create your very first API project and shows how to scale it to support any number of requests. He then shows how to deploy your API to Azure and consume it with the API Management service, including adding consumption rules that apply rate-limit and control-flow policies, modify headers, handle errors, and more. He also shows how to make APIs secure and discoverable, and monitor the performance of APIs after release using analytics, app insights, and live metrics. Plus, learn how to keep your APIs up to date over time—without any service interruption—through versioning.

Concepts

Introduction

Create an enterprise-ready API
What you should know

Getting Started with Azure API Management Service

Introducing Azure API Management service
Creating your first Azure API Management project
Adding new APIs to the API Management project
Testing APIs using mocked data
Challenge - Create and publish an API with Azure API Management
Solution - Create and publish an API with Azure API Management

Deploying and Consuming APIs through Azure API Management

Exploring and deploying your API to Azure
Exposing your API endpoints via Azure API Management service
Consuming your backend APIs via Azure API Management service
Updating APIs using revisioning
Versioning APIs in Azure API Management
Challenge - Add a second version to an existing API
Solution - Add a second version to an existing API

Adding API Consumption Rules Using Policies

What are policies in Azure API Management
Applying a rate limit policy to your API
Manipulating request headers using policies
Handling CORS in Azure API management
Creating and applying advanced policies to your API
Error handling using policies
Debugging policies
Challenge - Apply an hourly usage rate limit policy to an API
Solution - Apply an hourly usage rate limit policy to an API

Securing Your APIs with Azure API Management Service

Securing APIs using subscription keys
Securing APIs with OAuth2 setup
Securing APIs with OAuth2 configuration
Securing APIs using certificates
Challenge - Implement OAuth authentication for Azure API Management
Solution - Implement OAuth authentication for Azure API Management

Making Your API Discoverable Using the Developer Portal

Customizing the developer portal
Requesting and approving subscription keys via the portal
Authenticating developers via Azure AD
Self-hosting Azure API service developer portal
Customizing email templates
Challenge - Enable Azure AD authentication
Solution - Enable Azure AD authentication

Debugging and Monitoring Azure API Management Resources

Understanding API performance using analytics
Configure Azure Application Insights for APIs
Analyzing API logs using Application Insights
Analyzing application dependencies using Application Map
Viewing real-time metrics using live metrics
Getting notified using alerts
Challenge - Create alerts for failed requests
Solution - Create alerts for failed requests

Conclusion

Next steps for your enterprise APIs