Understanding APiHub
APIHub is the Apigee tool to help in the life of cycle. APIHub allows Register the following data for each API:
- Owner information: Register name and email for the api owner
- API Documentations: Register the doc for requirement, funtional and technical specifications
- Additional details: Allow to register description, docunetaion link, team, business unit, maturity level, target user and api syle.
- Additional attributes: Allow to register additional information
Know, you can upload the api spec
Yo can create deployments for the api. You should to create the deployment and link the api with him
PLu-ins, Curations and actions
Plug-ins
Plug-ins, also known as “on-ramp plug-ins,” are the mechanism API hub uses to connect to and ingest API metadata from various sources. Think of them as the connectors or data importers for your API hub. They allow API hub to automatically discover and pull in information about your APIs from different platforms where they are managed or defined
Curations
Curation is the process of transforming and enriching the API metadata that has been ingested by the plug-ins. Its primary goal is to ensure consistency and a unified view of your API portfolio within API hub.
Actions
Actions are triggered workflows or automations that are initiated by events within the platform. While the term “actions” can also refer to API Security actions within Apigee to deny or allow traffic, in the context of API hub, they are about extending the platform’s capabilities to automate processes.
How to use APiHub with APIquality
By integrating Apigee API Hub and API Quality, you can leverage the distinct strengths of both platforms
If you want to import from apihub, you must to configure apigee and enable the funcionality in organization properties.
Now, you can import and select the api that you want to use:
Why combine both tools?
Apiquality helps:
- Visual UI to define the APi
- Configure one or more styles guides in visual interface
- You can use external apitools as openapi2postman, openapigenerator, openapi-diff.
- You can create archetype for your microservices
- You can execute funcional tests, stress tests, security tests
- You can combine different life of cycle for different api managers
- You can use your own repository
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