The document outlines best practices for DevOps-friendly API management, emphasizing the increasing adoption of multi-cloud environments and the importance of APIs for automation by 2021. It suggests integrating API management into DevOps workflows and using various API gateways to support distributed systems. It also highlights the significance of developer portals for providing resources such as sample code and documentation.

1. Best Practices for DevOps-
Friendly API Management
Karthik Krishnaswamy
Director Product Marketing
Ken Bauernfreund
Senior Product Manager
Brian Ehlert
Senior Technical Product Manager

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The application landscape is transforming
1 F5 State of Application Services Report 2018 2 IDC FutureScape 2019 3 Cisco Global Cloud Index: 2016-2021
4 Akamai State of the Internet Report 2019
The future is cloud
• 87% of customers are adopting
multi-cloud1
• 0% of customers can report the
number of applications in their
portfolio with confidence
• Privacy and compliance are taking a
back seat to speed to market
DevOps is rising2
• 65% of orgs will expand agile/
DevOps methods into the wider
business by 2021
• 70% of CIOs will use APIs to
interconnect automation tools
by 2021
• DevOps is critical to agility, but
causes an organizational divide
Technology is changing
• 85% of new app workload instances
are container-based, growing to 95%
by 20213
• 83% of Internet traffic is now APIs,
only 17% is HTML4
• Analytics & API management across
the environment is difficult

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What is API Management?

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Automate API Management
Integrate API management into DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines using APIs:
• Define and publish APIs
• Configure API gateways
• Configure security policies for published APIs

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Use as many gateways as needed for distributed environments
• Use Gateways as needed per LOB/function or test, dev, prod and sandbox environments
• Use a solution that enables self-service

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Use a Developer Portal
Developer portal consists of:
• Sample code
• Documentation
• Catalog of APIs

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NGINX Full Lifecyle API Management

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NGINX Powers many API Management Solutions
Google
Cloud
Endpoints
Kong
Axway RedHat
3Scale
Torry
Harris

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