The document discusses the necessity of CI/CD for API management, highlighting common challenges faced in production development stages and strategies for building a CI/CD process. It introduces WSO2's API Controller, detailing its features such as native integration with Git and environment-specific configurations. A demo of the CI/CD pipeline in action is also included, along with resources for further exploration.

1. Reducing DevOps Burden with Git-based
CI/CD Pipelines for APIs
30th September, 2020

2. Hello!
Malintha Amarasinghe
Associate Technical Lead
malinthaa@wso2.com
Uvindra Dias Jayasinha
Technical Lead
uvindra@wso2.com

3. ● Why CI/CD is needed
● Building a CI/CD strategy
● WSO2 API Controller
● Demo
⦿ A multi-environment CI/CD pipeline in action
Agenda
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4. Why CI/CD is Needed?

5. Common Problems
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Production Development
● Enabling API Management for APIs developed by API Developers
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6. Common Problems
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Production Development
● Enabling API Management for APIs developed by API Developers
● Automate API deployment from lower environments to upper environments
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7. Common Problems
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Production Development
● Enabling API Management for APIs developed by API Developers
● Automate API deployment from lower environments to upper environments
● Handling deployment automations for the APIs provisioned in different ways
{ dev }
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8. Common Problems
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Production Development
● Enabling API Management for APIs developed by API Developers
● Automate API deployment from lower environments to upper environments
● Handling deployment automations for the APIs provisioned with different ways
● Efficiently manage multiple API development projects and change propagation to upper environments
● Environment specific (endpoints) configurations
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9. Building a CI/CD Strategy

10. Building a CI/CD Strategy
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There is no silver bullet!
● First step of building a CI/CD process associates with
⦿ Organization culture
⦿ Governance structure and process
⦿ Team structure and dynamics
● Selection of proper CI/CD tools
● Selection of source code repository

11. CI/CD Process Overview
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APICTL

12. API Controller

13. API Controller and its Features
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● A command Line tool
● Export APIs from WSO2 API Manager into API projects
● Create API projects using OpenAPI specifications
apictl
API
MobileStoreAPI
export
apictl
initialize API
PetstoreAPI
Petstore
OpenAPI spec

14. API Controller and its Features
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● Import API projects and create APIs in WSO2 API Manager
● Inject per-environment configuration
API
MobileStoreAPI
staging:
backend=stg.mobile.com
production:
backend=prod.mobile.com
ProductionStaging
stg.mobile.com
prod.mobile.com
apictl
import
apictl
import

15. API Controller and its Features
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● Native integration with Git (new in 3.2.0)
API
Petstore API
Project
API
MobileStore API
Project
PetstoreAPI
MobileStoreAPI

16. API Controller and its Features
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● Native integration with Git (new in 3.2.0)
PetstoreAPI
MobileStoreAPI
API
Petstore API
Project
API
MobileStore API
Project
+/- changed
{ dev }
commit

17. API Controller and its Features
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● Native integration with Git (new in 3.2.0)
apictl
PetstoreAPI
MobileStoreAPI
API
Petstore API
Project
API
MobileStore API
Project
+/- changed
Deploy repository (vcs deploy)
{ dev }
commit

18. Demo Workflow
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dev branch
master branch
PR
dev
environment
prod
environment
dev pipeline
prod pipeline
API
project
apictl
apictl

19. Demo

20. Question Time!
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21. ● Download and try-out
⦿ https://wso2.com/api-management
● Slack channel
⦿ https://wso2-apim.slack.com
● Github
⦿ https://github.com/wso2/carbon-apimgt
⦿ https://github.com/wso2/product-apim
● Demo material
⦿ https://github.com/myorg-x/cicd-demo-2020
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22. wso2.com
Thanks!