Managing Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform for Hybrid Cloud

Overview

Learn how to install and manage Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform in a hybrid cloud. This course uses lectures and a lab to show you how to install, manage, and scale your Apigee hybrid API Platform.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

• Familiarity with Linux commands and command line interface
• Basic understanding of Google Cloud
• Basic understanding of GKE
• Basic understanding of networking
• Basic understanding of shell scripts, XML, JSON, HTTP, REST, and TLS

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Cloud Architects, Cloud Engineers

Objectives

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

• Identify the purpose and value of Apigee API Platform.
• Describe basic concepts and capabilities of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, REST, and Anthos.
• Discuss Apigee API Platform architecture and recommended practices for topology design.
• Explain Apigee terminology and logical organizational structures.
• Install Apigee hybrid on Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Discuss infrastructure security, user access management, data storage, and encryption practices used in Apigee hybrid.
• Manage environments in Apigee hybrid.
• Discuss capacity planning and scale runtime components in the hybrid runtime plane.
• Describe the upgrade and rollback process used for the Apigee hybrid installation.
• Troubleshoot and monitor the hybrid runtime plane components using logs, metrics, and analytics.

Outline

Module 1: Fundamentals

Topics

• Apigee overview
• Introduction to Google Cloud
• Introduction to Kubernetes and Anthos
• REST concepts

Objectives

• Describe the Apigee API management platform, and the services and features it provides.
• Describe basic concepts and the capabilities of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, REST, and Anthos

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 2: Architecture

Topics

• Terminology and organizational structure
• Architecture
• Networking
• Apigee API

Objectives

• Describe the architecture and networking used in Apigee hybrid, and the various components that are used to operate the runtime plane.
• Describe the terminology, organizational structure, and the management API used in Apigee hybrid.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 3: Installation and platform operation

Topics

• Installation process
• Platform operation
• Backup and restore

Objectives

• Describe the process involved in installing Apigee hybrid.
• Describe the tools and commands used to configure and manage the components of the hybrid runtime plane.
• Perform an installation of the Apigee hybrid runtime plane in a Kubernetes cluster on GKE.
• Configure the Apigee hybrid runtime plane.
• Configure Apigee hybrid environments and environment groups by using the Apigee hybrid UI.
• Deploy simple API proxies to the Apigee hybrid environments.
• Validate Apigee hybrid environments by testing API proxies

Activities

• 1 lab and 1 quiz

Module 4: Deployment and environment management

Topics

• Building and deploying API proxies
• Debugging
• Developer portal solutions
• Managing environments

Objectives

• Manage environments and API proxy deployments in Apigee hybrid.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 5: Security

Topics

• Infrastructure security
• Data storage and encryption
• RBAC

Objectives

• Determine how hybrid runtime components communicate securely within the runtime plane and with the hybrid management plane in Google Cloud
• Describe how data is encrypted and how you can use role-based access control to manage user access in Apigee hybrid

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 6: Capacity planning and scaling

Topics

• Capacity planning
• Scaling

Objectives

• Determine how to plan capacity for the Apigee hybrid runtime plane.
• Scale the Apigee hybrid runtime components

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 7: Upgrade

Topics

• Upgrade process
• Rollback process

Objectives

• Upgrade an Apigee hybrid installation to a new release.
• Discuss the steps to roll back an upgraded Apigee hybrid installation

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 8: Logging and monitoring

Topics

• Logging
• Metrics
• Analytics
• Monitoring and troubleshooting
• Apigee support

Objectives

• Explain how the Apigee runtime plane generates logs, metrics, and analytics data.
• Monitor the health of Apigee hybrid runtime plane components.
• Troubleshoot issues with the runtime components, using logs and metrics data

Activities

• 1 quiz

Exams and Assessments

There are no examinations or certifications associated with this course

Hands-On Learning

This course is delivered via a mixture of presentations, demonstrations and practical labs.