API Management
Microsoft Azure API Management is a turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. Quickly create consistent and modern API gateways for existing backend services hosted anywhere, secure and protect them from abuse and overuse, and gain insights into usage and health. Plus, automate and scale developer onboarding to help get your API program up and running in no time.
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API DevOps with Azure API Management
Customers commonly use separate Azure API Management service instances for various environments, e.g., production, staging, QA. These environments are usually shared by multiple development teams, each responsible for a subset of APIs. We are working on a set of guidance, samples, and open source tools that will enable customers to automate API deployment to shared environments by multiple teams without interfering with each other.
436 votes -
Automated backup for APIM
Provide automated and manual backup feature something similar to what we have in Azure Web Apps (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/web-sites-backup#configure-automated-backups ).58 votes -
Multiple Environment per Instance
If you want your users to see the documentation in production, but "Try It" in your staging environment we'd have to deploy a separate APIM instance and manage content in both.
Below is a brain dump of how I imagine this feature could be used in various aspects of the APIM solution.
apiminstance.azure-api.net < this would be the primary
environment.apiminstance.azure-api.net < this would be the environment specific or a custom domain per environmentThere would be no environment.apiminstance.portal.azure-api.net site
Also if we could set the default environment to use for the Try It button that'd be fantastic.
Each environment should…
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Support API definition updates as part of Visual Studio builds
For applications developed in Visual Studio and leveraging Swashbuckle, can we get the ability to update the API definitions in APIm on each build and deploy (CI) rather than having to hand-update APIm each time.
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Publish widgets through a REST API
Can you provide the ability to publish widgets through a Rest API? It's annoying you can't style or change the format without doing it manually.
11 votesWe are planning to address this issue as part of our developer portal work.
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PowerShell Support to Create/Import an API from a Logic App
Currently there is no PowerShell Automation Support to Create / Import a Logic App similar to functionality for deploying an App Service API App.
8 votes -
Add file name to deployment error.
When I edited my git repo locally and then pushed it back to the server there was a typo error in my code, opps... The error message was as follows and it tells me what was wrong, even what line number the error was on, but it does not tell me what policy file the error occurred in. Would be nice if you told me what file the error is in.
Deployment operation failed due to invalid data: One or more fields contain incorrect values: Error in element 'send-request' on line 10, column 4: ; expected.
Thanks
5 votesThanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, this is not a trivial change for us and we won’t be able to accommodate this now, but will keep it in the backlog. We understand the desire for having more descriptive and actionable errors and will try to add additional information to error messages.
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Configure custom git repository
At this moment, each API management instance offers a git repository which can be used to make changes to the instance. In DevOps scenarios where one team has multiple instances (dev, staging, prod) you want these changes to follow the product lifecyle along with other changes. For example: a certain release includes a new back-end API which you also want to include into APIM. You'd want the entire package to move from development into staging in one single release.
Imho the perfect way to fix this is to hook-up each APIM release to a centralized github repo, and have it…
4 votesPlease see http://aka.ms/apimdevops for (work in progress) guidance and tools around automating deployment across multiple API Management environments.
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Add Support for Properties in the OAuth Servers
Add support for Properties (e.g. {{TokenEndpoint}}) for the OAuth server endpoints.
Currently, the UI and the actual server do not function when you update (via REST API) the OAuth server to have a tokenEndpoint = '{{TokenEndpoint}}' as the value. The REST API accepts the value but then the actual server cannot acquire a token.
This is needed to support clone/merge/pull promotion of the config from one environment to another, e.g. from dev instance to prod instance.
Currently the only option is to exclude that file during merge as they must have unique environment values.
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Manage API Lifecycle Management
The API Lifecycle Management approach provides a holistic view on how to manage the different stages in the life of an API, from creation to retirement.
The five stages of an API lifecycle are:
1. Planning and Designing the API
2. Developing the API
3. Testing the API
4. Deploying the API
5. Retiring the API3 votes -
Allow API Management to respond during backend upgrades
Create a new management API endpoint that allows an API to be marked with the states as "being upgraded" and "in production". When an API is marked as "being upgraded" it should return a 503 status with a retry-after header instead of passing the request through.
This would allow client applications that know how to do retries be uninterrupted by backend upgrades.
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staging
Hi,
Would it be possible to add a staging feature to APIM? Right now it is very hard to validate configuration changes in Production. Even if you have a PPE/TEST separate environment, the configurations won't be the same.
Deploying to production without testing is too risky.
Would it be possible to add a staging feature, where configurations can be tested in production and if after flight configurations seem validated, then changes can be published from staging to production
1 votePlease review and follow http://aka.ms/apimdevops for guidance and tools around automating API Management configuration across multiple environments.
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