Azure API Management is a cloud-based API gateway that helps developers publish, discover, and manage their APIs. It provides a way for developers to securely expose their APIs to external consumers and internal teams while providing fine-grained access control and usage management. Azure API Management also offers an easy way to take existing back-end services and make them available to new mobile or web apps.
API Management can be used to take any existing API, whether it is hosted on-premises or in the cloud, and make it available to developers in a secure and scalable way. In addition, API Management provides a number of other capabilities such as rate-limiting, caching, authorization, and analytics that can be used to further improve the developer experience.
Creating an Azure API Management service instance:
To create an Azure API Management service instance, you need an Azure subscription. If you don’t have one, you can create a free trial subscription.
Once you have an Azure account, sign in to the Azure portal, and then click Create a resource. In the Search the Marketplace box, type API Management and press Enter. Click API Management from the search results. You can ask the RemoteDBA Administrator for more details.
On the API Management blade, click Create.
Configuring your new service instance:
- The first thing you need to do after creating your new service instance is to configure it. This includes setting up things like authentication, billing, monitoring, etc. Fortunately, Azure API Management provides a number of out-of-the-box configurations that can be used to get started quickly.
- To configure your new service instance, click on the Configure tab.
- The first thing you need to do is choose a pricing tier. Azure API Management offers a number of different pricing tiers, each with its own set of features and limitations. For more information, see Azure API Management Pricing.
- Once you have selected a pricing tier, you need to choose a location for your service instance. The location you choose will determine which region your service instance will be deployed in.
- After you have chosen a location, you need to provide a name for your service instance. This name must be unique within the chosen Azure region.
- The final thing you need to do is choose an administrator email address.
- After you have entered all the required information, click the Create button to create your new service instance.
Creating and publishing an API:
- Now that you have created your Azure API Management service instance, it’s time to start creating and publishing APIs.
- The first thing you need to do is create a new API. To do this, click on the APIs tab, and then click the + Add API button.
- On the Add API blade, you need to provide a name for your API.
- You also need to choose an API type. For this example, we will be creating a REST API.
- The next thing you need to do is provide a URL for your API. This URL can be either an absolute URL or a relative URL.
- After you have entered all the required information, click the Create button to create your new API.
- Once your API has been created, you need to publish it so that it can be consumed by developers. To do this, click on the Publish button.
- On the Publish blade, you need to provide a name for your API.
- You also need to provide a description of your API.
- After you have entered all the required information, click the Publish button to publish your API.
Conclusion:
In this article, we have seen how to create and configure a new Azure API Management service instance. We have also seen how to create and publish a new API.
