Course Content
This course introduces you to the fundamentals and advanced practices applicable to the installation and management of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for private cloud.
Who should attend
Cloud Architect, Cloud Engineer and Operation Specialists.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Linux command and command line interface.
- Basic understanding of networking.
- Basic understanding of shell script, XML, JSON, HTTP, REST, and TLS.
Course Objectives
- Identify the purpose and value of the Apigee API Platform.
- Gain a detailed understanding of the Apigee API Platform architecture and recommended practices for topology design.
- Gain a detailed understanding of the Apigee terminology and logical organizational structures.
- Interact with the Apigee API Platform and solve scenarios by leveraging recommended practices.
- Understand capabilities and practices to secure, manage and scale the platform.
- Learn and practice the installation and upgrade of the Apigee API Platform for Private Cloud.
Outline: Installing and Managing Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for Private Cloud (IMAPIPC)
Module 1: Architecture
- Familiarize with Apigee product capabilities and its place in the enterprise architecture.
- Gain understanding of Apigee technology stack.
- Gain basic understanding to Apache Cassandra capabilities and how they are leveraged by Apigee platform.
- Gain a detailed understanding of Apigee terminology and organizational structure.
- Explore topology design options.
Module 2: Installation
- Discuss installation planning.
- Understand installation dependencies.
- Learn and practice installation process.
- Discuss post installation tasks and recurrent activities recommended for the platform.
- Learn how to uninstall the platform/list]
Module 3: Developer Portal Installation
- Discuss the role of Apigee Developer Portal.
- Discuss recommended practices for hosting the Developer Portal.
- Discuss software distribution and installation process.
- Discuss platform operations capabilities and recommended practices.
- Discuss the role of Management API and how it is leveraged by platform.
- Gain understanding of API deployment process.
- Gain understanding of Apigee analytics.
- Discuss infrastructure operations capabilities and recommended practices.
- Discuss Apigee capabilities to secure API traffic.
- Understand how to configure TLS critical path components and user facing interfaces.
- Learn how to configure single sign-on.
- Discuss upgrade planning recommended practices.
- Discuss upgrade prerequisites and dependencies.
- Learn and practice upgrade process.
- Discuss rollback scenarios and rollback process.
- Understand scenarios and recommended practices for capacity planning.
- Understand how to scale up/down physical and logical capacity.
- Understand how to add individual components, extend clusters and add new regions.
- Discuss recommended practices for monitoring the platform.
- Understand how to monitor individual components.
- Discuss the role of synthetic transactions monitoring.
- Discuss recommended practices for API monitoring.
- Discuss failure scenarios and troubleshooting practices.
- Understand Apigee support model.