Building Solutions with Apigee X

Overview

In this course you will go through the Apigee journey as a product lead for a new application. You will take roles on the development and security teams.

You will take an API originally designed for an on-premises legacy application use and modernize it for the cloud using Apigee X. You will follow Google Cloud best practices alongside Apigee X to design a secure, scalable and resilient platform for your company’s needs.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

• Completion of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course, or equivalent experience working with Google Cloud and Apigee
• Familiarity with API development concepts and cloud-based services
• Basic understanding of security principles such as authentication and encryption

Target audience

This course is designed for:

• Cloud developers responsible for designing and implementing APIs in Google Cloud environments
• Developers working with Apigee who want to modernise legacy applications using cloud-native practices
• Technical professionals involved in API development, integration, and security

Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Secure the backend of your legacy application using mutual TLS
• Design applications with an API first design using the OpenAPI specification
• Integrate your API proxy with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API
• Best practices for site reliability with Apigee using monitoring and logging
• Modernize application deployment using Cloud Run and Cloud Build
• Authentication using API Keys and Firebase Authentication with Apigee
• Harden APIs using Apigee Policies and Cloud Armor
• Mitigate external threats with reCAPTCHA Enterprise
• Leverage Apigee Analytics to show custom data capture and reporting
• Leverage Cloud Code in your development environment to locally emulate Apigee
• Use Apigee Integration to improve connectivity with other services in Google Cloud

Outline

Why Apigee X

• Why Apigee X
• Introduction to the course scenario
• One-way and two-way TLS
• Getting started with Apigee X

The target

• Implementing a mutual TLS gateway
• API keys
• Controlling API responses

API-first design with OpenAPI

• API-first design
• The Show Me Now REST API
• What is OpenAPI
• Apigee debugging

Integrating external services

• Cloud Data Loss Prevention API
• Apigee ServiceCallout policy
• Message logging and Cloud Logging
• Uptime checks
• Alerting policies

Consuming Apigee resources

• Introducing the client application
• Application build tools
• Firebase authentication
• Apigee security policies

Hardening your API

• API security vulnerabilities
• JSON threat protection policies
• Cloud Armor
• Security investigation tools

External threat mitigation

• reCAPTCHA Enterprise
• Apigee data collection
• Apigee custom reports

Expand your Apigee toolset

• The Apigee management API
• API proxy deployment options
• Local development using Cloud Code
• Apigee emulator
• Development workflow

Application integration

• Introduction to Application Integration
• Triggers
• Tasks
• Apigee integration policies

Course summary

• Course debrief
• Apigee X or Apigee Hybrid
• What’s next

Exams and assessments

There are no examinations or certifications associated with this course.

Hands-on learning

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and practical labs. Learners complete a series of scenario-based labs that guide them through modernising a legacy API and implementing security, deployment, and monitoring capabilities using Apigee X and Google Cloud.