Azure API Management (APIM)

• APIM is a way to create consistent and modern API Gateways for backend services

• Refer Here for understanding API Gateway

• Components:

  • API Gateway: (endpoint)
    • Accepts API calls and routes them to backends
    • Verifies Authentication/Authorization by API keys, JWT tokens, certificates or other credentials
    • Caches backend responses
  • Azure Portal: (administrative interface)
    • Define or importing API schema
    • Package APIs int products
    • Get insights
    • User Mangement
  • Developer Portal: (developer guide)
    • Read API documentation
    • Test API
    • Account Creation
    • Analytics Access

• Open API is industry standard for documenting APIs

• Azure API Management Service Instance Creation:

  • Select Create a resource option and search for API Management
  • Now select the options
  • After the resource creation is succesful, lets create our API by importing API definition at here

• API Management can be used with microservices deployed in K8s in AKS Refer Here