Getting started with Azure API Management

[@sachinkapoor796]

Perfect guidance. Thanks 👍

[@joshuaashton856]

Can you provide github reference please?

[@truthseeker2171]

The on thing I still don't understand is, do I need servers to deploy the source code to? Is this just an additional layer that will interface between the actual backend servers and the frontend (applications or developers) ?

[@JimPanse2]

Struggled with this myself and yes, you do need to host your code somewhere where it is accessible by e.g. REST-calls.

[@TiffanyMorris123]

Since your comment is 5 months ago, by now trying APIM must have answered this, but I will also insert one here. You can both have a backend server to deploy your API code or use APIM out of box to mockup and test APIs. For a prod implementation, it may be a recommendation, to control your API behavior and structure via a backend server. Try out developer version and comb through the docs for more detail : docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/

[@BrendanMetcalfe]

Thanks!

[@onaspnet]

How do you go about creating sandbox apis vs production apis?

[@anders_eide]

If it's for a critical system, you might want to have a peak at this Resource Kit for inspiration github.com/Azure/azure-api-management-devops-resource-kit If the deployment isn't that big, or critical, you might just create a Revision of the operation and do your testing there. Then it's easy to do the switch later on also. And it has a much lower cost... /Anders