Apigee X on Google Cloud: The Ultimate Hands-on Guide

A complete guide packed with concepts, use-cases and hands-on exercises to become an expert on Apigee API Management

What you'll learn
- Concepts, use-cases and necessary basics for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), APIs and API Gateway
- Provision Apigee X and explore numerous API configurations and policies for a variety of use-cases
- Advanced Implementations with Networking solutions, Security, Custom Domain, SSL/TLS, Integrated Developer Portal and more
- Develop API Proxies on Apigee X and configure their Endpoints, Policies, Flows, Environments, Environment groups and much more
- API Products, Apps, API Keys, Shared Flows, Flow hooks, Route Rules, Fault handling, Debugging and Offline Debug features
- Apigee Persistence Features - Basic & Advanced Caching, Property Sets, Key-Value Maps
- IAM, Service Accounts, Apigee API, Target Servers, Service Callout with HTTP Targets/Proxy-Chaining/Path-Chaining
- Work with various backend types: Cloud Run Functions, REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Application Integration Service
- Implement Mocking scenario, URI Rewrite mechanism and many such real-world scenarios
- Implementing API Security features, CORS and OAuth2 for APIs (using both API-proxy based server and Okta Server)
- Debugging, Offline Debug, Proxy Export-import, Proxy Duplication
- Integrated Developer Portal : Configure, Publish, Secure and test APIs
- Implement SAML SSO and Custom Domain on Integrated Developer Portal
- Networking: Configure Internal-only and External API access, Cross-network API calls, Private Service Connect, NEGs, Peering, DNS and LBs
- Administration and Operations: GCP Roles, Apigee releases, multi-region expansion for fault tolerance, Audit Logging
- Provision Apigee Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) Service and explore its networking and features
- Work with Local Proxy Development, Archive Deployment and gcloud commands
- Observability: Monitoring, Analytics, Operational Anomalies, Alerts, Access Logging (Runtime Logs), Custom Data Capture and Custom Metrics

Requirements
- Basic IT background is recommended, but API/GCP/Cloud experience is NOT needed
- This is low-code cloud service, so coding experience is NOT required

Description
Note that this course doesn't require any prior experience on APIs or Google Cloud Platform(GCP). Necessary Cloud and API basics are covered in the course. Learn the market-leading API Management service i.e. Apigee X, with this HANDS-ON DRIVEN course.

Apigee X is one of the most popularfully-managed cloud-native servicefor implementing API Gateway on HTTP services and managing complete lifecycle for the APIs. It is hosted on Google Cloud Platform, which is one of the fastest growing major Cloud Provider.

This course offers a holistic learning journey foranyonewanting to explore numerous enterprize-grade solutions offered by this feature-packed Cloud service.

New to GCP, Cloud or APIs? No worries.

Suitable for everyone - beginners & experienced

Covers the necessary Cloud and API fundamentals in initial dedicated sections

Explore Apigee X essential concepts and features, then organically dive into advanced features and implementations with subsequent sections.

Familiar with GCP and/or APIs but not with API Management?Somewhat familiar with API Management?

GOOD, now go from Beginner/Intermediate to EXPERT!

Explore with me why do we even need API Management and how smart solutions can be built around APIs using Apigee X.

Uselatest Cloud Console UIfor all hands-on. Helpful for existing Apigee developers who want to learn new UI and features.

You'll learn GCP and Apigee essentials very quickly, but in second-half of the course, you'll also get to learn many crucial concepts and Cloud solutions. That should help you gain crucial knowledge not just for Apigee, but useful for most IT areas:-

Learn Service Accounts, IAM, OAuth2 Flows(SSO), CORS, Okta (third-party IdP) for API security and access controls.

Understand Cloud Run Functions & Application Integration Service basics to make them backend APIs on Apigee.

Understand REST, SOAP and GraphQL basics along with their implementation on Apigee X.

Understand what's really TLS/SSL flow, and implement it on Apigee X Trust Store

Implement networking architectures using Google Cloud VPCs, Private Service Connect(PSC), Network Peering, Network Endpoint Groups and GCP Load Balancers

Use Apigee REST API for operations like Debug Masking, Key-Value Maps, Runtime Instance configs etc..

Learn to configure Custom Domain and SAML SSO for Developer Portal.

Explore Local Proxy Development using Cloud Code Extension in Visual Studio Code

Explore Cloud Logging and Monitoring features for API Observability

I am confident that this practical guide would help tremendously whether your goal is just up-skilling yourself or whether you want to actively implement the service in your own organization.

Happy Learning !!

Who this course is for:
- IT beginners or Experienced Developers who want to learn all about APIs
- Software Engineers, Integration Consultants, Technical Leads, Cloud Developers
- Solutions Architects or Enterprize Architects
- Anyone who wants to gain hands-on confidence or broaden their technical skills
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