Azure Basics

Azure APIM in Bullet Points

• Azure APIM is a platform to manage APIs.
• API Management allow organizations, publish APIs to external, partner, and internal developers.
• Azure APIM allow us to decouple request validation from APIs.
• You can secure your APIs

API Management service has 3 main components -

• Management plane/Azure Portal [Manage admin tasks]
• API Gateway [Manage API calls]
• Developer portal [Interface for developers to interact with APIs]

There are two API Gateway Options available currently -

• Managed — indicates the gateway built into the API Management service and hosted by Microsoft in Azure
• Self-hosted — With the self-hosted gateway, customers have the flexibility to deploy a containerized version of the API Management gateway component to the same environments where they host their APIs. The self-hosted gateway is available as a Linux-based Docker container from the Microsoft Container Registry.

API Management can be run in three modes as of now

• Off —
  1/ This is the default.
  2/ API Management is not deployed into a virtual network.
• External —
  1/ The APIM gateway and dev portal are accessible from the public internet via an external load balancer.
  2/ It uses external load balancer. Service endpoints are registered on the public…