The document discusses Lifecycle Manager and its Lifecycle API. Lifecycle Manager is a platform that allows companies to manage the lifecycle of APIs and SOA assets from design through retirement. It includes features like process automation, analytics, and developer engagement tools. The Lifecycle API provides flexibility to integrate Lifecycle Manager into external systems and tools to manage API development and deployment workflows. An example is given of using the API to automate continuous integration and deployment of builds to operational platforms.

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Lifecycle Manager
and the
Lifecycle API

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What is an API?
Your ApplicationYour APIYour Customers

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Extend the Reach of your Business

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The API Platform
Transform
& Secure
Publish Monetize
Dev.
Adoption
API
SOAP to REST
Mobile-
Optimization
OAuth
Mediation
Analytics API Documentation
Applications
and Services
Apps
API Producers API Consumers

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Unified SOA & API Platform
• Measure the impact of
your programsAnalytics
• Build your developer
and partner ecosystem
Developer
Engagement
• Secure and protect
your systemsGateway Services
• Simplify and speed up
development
Service
Integration
• Build the right services
& APIs the right way
Lifecycle
Management

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The Unified SOA & API Platform
Analytics
Developer
Engagement
Gateway Services
Service Integration
Lifecycle
Management

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Lifecycle Manager – Delivering Enterprise APIs
• APIs must be treated as products to maximize their successful uptake
– Consistency across operations and APIs – naming, usage patterns
– Documentation
– SDKs
– Live sandbox environments for app onboarding
– etc.
• How can enterprises achieve the necessary level of quality and
consistency for their APIs?
– “Just enough governance” – define the content, rules and roles required to
produce and expose enterprise-quality APIs
– Automate what you can
– Review what you can’t automate
• Lifecycle Manager gives you the flexibility to define “just enough
governance” and the automation to deliver your APIs seamlessly to
your customers

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Why a Lifecycle API?
• Ease of integration is important for efficient API lifecycle process
automation
– Cross-infrastructure and platform
– Supporting multiple end-user modes
• Lifecycle Manager provides a Lifecycle API to give customers
maximum flexibility with their processes
– REST-based
– Leveraging JSON Schema and Alpaca form markup syntax
– Front-ending Lifecycle Manager’s powerful and flexible process
automation engine
– Available via PaaS and on-premise based deployments

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Typical Lifecycle API Use Cases
• API Portal (Community Manager) User and App onboarding
– Configurable forms to gather user/app info, collect agreements, etc.
– Configurable role-based notifications and approvals
• Mobile app based API SDLC approvals
– Deliver approval requests to stakeholders on their preferred platform
• DevOps automation
– Our demo example

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Lifecycle API DevOps Automation Scenario
• Use Lifecycle Manager to tag designated Continuous Integration
builds as “deployable” and to automatically deploy those builds to
targeted operational platforms after approval
• For demo purposes, we’ll simulate this scenario using a designated
GitHub repository (representing the build output repository) and
Amazon S3 bucket (representing the targeted deployment platform)

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DEMO

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Key Lifecycle Manager Features
• AnySource Asset Adapter
– Enables automated rule-based scanning of repositories to support both
SDLC and DevOps-related processes
– Prebuilt implementations for GitHub, CVS, Subversion, Microsoft Team
Foundation Server, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational ClearCase,
Serena PVCS, Perforce and any WebDAV-enabled repository
– Also available as full source framework to extend to any target system of
record
• Process Automation Framework
– Fully configurable platform supporting automated and role-based policies
– Flexible Beanshell/Jython task extension framework
– Easy access to audit history via SQL read only views
• Lifecycle API
– Efficient access to Lifecycle Manager’s powerful process automation
framework
– Designed to support rapid form development using Alpaca for easy
integration into your platforms and tools

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Flexible Deployment Model

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Questions

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API and SOA Resources
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– http://lm.epaas.info/LMApiDemo/
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