Announcing: Azure API Center Hands-on Workshop 🚀
What is the Azure API Center Workshop? The Azure API Center flash workshop is a resource designed to expand your understanding of how organizations can enhance and streamline their API management and governance strategies using Azure API Center. With this practical knowledge and insights, you will be able to streamline secure API integration and enforce security and compliance with tools that evolve to meet your growing business needs. Azure API Center is a centralized inventory designed to track all your APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location. It enhances discoverability, development, and reuse of APIs. While Azure API Management focuses on API deployment and runtime governance, Azure API Center complements it by centralizing APIs and streamlining the registration of new APIs and design-time governance. Who can go through the workshop? The Azure API Center workshop benefits anyone who is interested in improving their API development, at-scale governance, discovery, and consumption workflow experience. Throughout the workshop, we reference 3 key personas heavily involved in the API ecosystem. API Producers - Individual developers or teams who consolidate API specifications and requirements and design API architectures to fit defined goals. They also develop, secure, publish, test APIs to ensure they meet functional and performance requirements and document APIs. API Platform Engineers/ API Admins - Establish and enforce API best practices and design standards across teams and the entire organization. They also enforce monitoring and analysis of definitions for adherence to organizational style rules, generating both individual and summary reports. This ensures timely correction of common errors and inconsistencies in your API definitions. API consumers - Consumers of APIs to build systems/ applications that use services provided by the organization, or direct consumers using APIs to satisfy business needs. To put these personas into perspective, we use a fictitious company, Contoso Airlines, to demonstrate how API Center integrates with existing API development, deployment, governance and discovery workflows. If you are passionate about teaching and skilling others on API best practices and concepts, visit the workshop's GitHub repository for session delivery resources you can use for a step-by-step presentation on API Center using this workshop. Don't forget to like and star the repo ⭐ What will you learn after going through the workshop? The workshop is divided into three key pillars as follows: API Inventory Under the API Inventory pillar, you will go through guided steps to install the Azure API Center extension on VS Code, connect to your Azure account and create an API Center resource with custom API metadata/ properties defined. You will then use GitHub Copilot to register current APIs into your API Center resource, configure environments and deployments for your APIs and set up automatic synchronization as you import more sample APIs from an API Management service. API Governance You will then go through the API Governance experience first from an API producer's perspective, as you define and apply a custom API style ruleset on VS Code, and from an API Admin perspective to deploy the ruleset to Azure, and view API Analysis reports on Azure to determine the health and safety of all APIs across the organization. API Discovery & Consumption Here, you will learn how you can discover all APIs on VS Code and on the Azure portal, a key step before creating any new APIs to ensure no duplication and promote reusable APIs. You will also quickly load API Documentation and test your APIs. Where do I go to get started with the workshop? To get started with the workshop, you can directly go to https://aka.ms/APICenter/Workshop or go through our GitHub Repository where you can open issues, leave feedback, and leave a star 😉
