The document outlines the concept of APIOps, emphasizing its role in enhancing API delivery efficiency through automation and cloud-native practices. It discusses the transition from traditional, monolithic architectures to consumer-centric, loosely coupled API ecosystems, highlighting the need for a balance between speed and consistency in API management. The paper also details the benefits of APIOps, such as increased speed, improved consistency, and lower costs, alongside a comprehensive API lifecycle management approach that integrates GitOps principles.

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Cologne, 2021-12-15
Sven Bernhardt
EFFICIENT API-DELIVERY WITH
APIOPS

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THAT‘S ME
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Sven Bernhardt
Cloud-Native enthusiast, API & integration geek. Always curious how new
technologies and concepts can help to make things more valuable and efficient.
¢ Chief Architect / Integration Evangelist@OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH
¢ Oracle ACE Director
@sbernhardt
https://svenbernhardt.wordpress.com/

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APIOPS
WHY?
WHAT?
HOW?

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APIOPS?
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COVID-19 REQUIRES COMPANIES TO CREATE NEW DIGITAL OFFERINGS
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Source: https://konghq.com/resources/digital-innovation-benchmark-2021/ Source: https://pages.apigee.com/rs/351-WXY-166/images/Apigee_StateOfAPIS_eBook_2020.pdf

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MOVEMENT TO ARCHITECTURES THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR CHANGE
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¢ Move away from
¢ Classic and monolithic application design
¢ Centralized application teams
¢ Manual application delivery
Source: https://konghq.com/resources/digital-innovation-benchmark-2021/

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APIS ARE ESSENTIAL TO LOOSELY COUPLED ARCHITECTURES
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¢ APIs are used for providing functionalities to
consumers
¢ Internal
¢ External
¢ Sync and Async APIs
¢ APIs != REST
Source: https://pages.apigee.com/rs/351-WXY-166/images/Apigee_StateOfAPIS_eBook_2020.pdf

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APIS SHOULD DELIVER BUSINESS VALUE!
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¢ Focus on potential consumers
¢ How will a consumer use my API?
¢ What kind of resources and operations are
needed by the consumers?
¢ …
¢ APIs should be consumer-centric and thus
be consumable
¢ Well-designed, secured and compliant
¢ Documented, discoverable and accessible
¢ Performant, reliable and scalable
Source: https://konghq.com/blog/what-is-apiops/
Compliant
Functional Findable
The intersection of the three
characteristics defines
consumable APIs!

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ACHIEVE CONSUMABLE APIS THROUGH AN API DESIGN-FIRST
APPROACH
Implementing Cloud-native Apps on OCI 9
¢ Synchronous APIs
¢ REST (OpenAPI)
¢ GraphQL
¢ gRPC
¢ Asynchronous APIs (preferred)
¢ Async API

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CHALLENGE: BALANCE BETWEEN SPEED AND CONSISTENCE
https://opitzcloud.canto.global/b/I3FO4

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DECENTRALISED API MANAGEMENT: FOCUS ON SPEED
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API Platform
Dev
Team 1
Dev
Team 2
Dev
Team n
API Standard 1
API Standard 2
API Standard n
Decreasing
consistence

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CENTRALISED API MANAGEMENT: FOCUS ON CONSISTENCE
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API Platform
Dev
Team 1
Dev
Team 2
Dev
Team n
API
Platform
Team
Review loop
Review loop
Review loop
API
Guidelines
API
Guidelines
API
Guidelines
Decreasing
speed

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AUTOMATION TO BALANCE SPEED AND CONSISTENCE
https://opitzcloud.canto.global/b/OQR0O

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APIOPS APPROACH: FOCUS ON SPEED AND CONSISTENCE
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API Platform
Dev
Team 1
Dev
Team 2
Dev
Team n
API
Platform
Team
API
Guidelines
API
Guidelines
API
Guidelines
Self-service
automated review
Automated review
Automated deployment

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API LIFECYCLE (PROVIDER PERSPECTIVE)
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Design
Build
Deploy
Promote,
deprecate, retire
Operate &
Observe
API ideation &
planning
Starting point: Design the API spec and
push to Git
Validate the API Spec
Generate declarative API config, deploy
it to the Gateway and provide API mock
Publish API spec and documentation
to a Developers Portal, manage API
versions
Operate an API depennding on
usage bahviour (e.g. scale
automatically, etc.)

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APIOPS EXTENDS GITOPS WITH TOOLS
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APIOps
= GitOps + API Design/Validation/Deployment Tools
GitOps
= Infrastructure as Code (IaC) + Merge Requests (MRs) + CI/CD
Sources:
https://about.gitlab.com/topics/gitops/
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud/2021/02/24/gitops-cloud-operating-model/
https://konghq.com/webinars/success/how-apiops-increases-speed-%26-quality-throughout-the-api-lifecycle
• Everything as Code
• Git as Single-Source-of-
truth

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Design
Build
Deploy
Promote,
deprecate, retire
Operate &
Observe
CONSISTENTLY MANAGE THE API LIFECYCLE USING GIT
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Outcome: Validated spec
Outcome: Validated implementation
Outcome: API endpoints, declarative
config
Outcome: Managed API
endpoints

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APIOPS TOOLCHAIN
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Design Deploy
Operate
&
Observe
Build
OCI API
Gateway
OCI
Monitoring
Promote/
Deprecate
/Retire
OCI
DevOps
decK
inso
Developer
Portal
OCI Logging
OCI APM

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APIOPS DELIVERY PIPELINE
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Design CI/CD Deploy
API Design Source Control Merge Request Merge
Lint, Test, Policy
enforcement
Deploy on
Success
API Gateway
API Portal
Further
components (*)
Automation
(*) might e.g. be a Service mesh
inso deck
OCI API
Gateway
API Gateway
config
API
Implementation

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BUSINESS BENEFITS OF APIOPS
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¢ Increased speed as everything is automated in the
delivery pipeline, which allows for rapidly
onboarding, operating and scaling
¢ Improved consistency through automated / self-
service governance throughout the delivery pipeline
¢ Lower cost because automation relieves the QA
teams
¢ Adopting APIOps increases
¢ Flexibility
¢ Agility and
¢ Ability to innovate

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IT BENEFITS OF APIOPS
Developers
¢ Increased Developers
productivity
¢ Fewer push backs and less
frustation
¢ Centralized discovery and
documentation
Operators
¢ Automated configurations
with Git as Single-Source-of-
Truth
¢ Automated QA
¢ Consistent, automated
rollback mechanism
Architects
¢ Faster time-2-market
¢ Improved consistency
¢ Increased security and
resiliency
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¢ Increased confidence while releasing changes
¢ Solid foundation to extend delivery pipeline to further use cases

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BEYOND APIOPS…
https://opitzcloud.canto.global/b/OMPHJ

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SELF-SERVICE NETWORK MANAGEMENT WITH SERVICE MESH
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¢ Describe policies regarding Service-2-Service
communication declaratively
¢ Some Service Mesh (like Kuma) implementations
are capable to cover:
¢ Hybrid / Multi-Cloud scenarios
¢ Container / VM workloads
¢ Benefits:
¢ Increased traffic connectivity & reliability
¢ Enhanced Security by implementing Zero-trust
Security Model (mTLS & Traffic permissions)
¢ Increased Observability

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DECLARATIVE AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT (E.G. WITH OPA)
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¢ OPA allows to define declarative authorization
(AuthZ) policies across the Cloud-native stack
¢ CI/CD pipelines
¢ Cloud platforms
¢ Applications
¢ Can be integrated with nearly everything
¢ Benefits:
¢ Increased consistence through central AuthZ
management
¢ Increased availabilty & performance
¢ Efficient authorization management (Implementation
& security reviews)
Sources:
https://konghq.com/blog/authorize-api-opa-kuma/
https://www.openpolicyagent.org

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Q & A
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MATERIAL
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¢ Kong Webinar APIOps: https://konghq.com/webinars/success/how-apiops-increases-speed-
%26-quality-throughout-the-api-lifecycle
¢ APIOps – Automated processes for even better APIs:
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2021/01/apiops-automated-processes-for-even-better-apis/
¢ Insomina: https://insomnia.rest/
¢ Kong Connect: https://konghq.com/kong-konnect/
¢ OCI DevOps: https://www.oracle.com/devops/devops-service/
¢ Authorizing Microservice APIs With OPA and Kuma: https://konghq.com/blog/authorize-api-opa-
kuma/
¢ Service integration made easy with Kuma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3GeuKzYrsA

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IN CASE OF ANY QUESTIONS…
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Sven Bernhardt
Chief Architect / Integration Evangelist |
Oracle ACE Director
OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH
Kirchstrasse 6, 51647 Gummersbach, Germany
Phone: +49 172 2193529
Mail: sven.bernhardt@opitz-consulting.com
Twitter: @sbernhardt
Blog: https://svenbernhardt.wordpress.com