Managing Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Architect, Cloud Engineer and Operation Specialists

• Identify the purpose and value of Apigee API Platform.
• Gain detailed understanding of Apigee API Platform architecture and recommended practices for topology design.
• Gain detailed understanding of Apigee terminology and logical organizational structures.
• Interact with Apigee API Platform and solve scenarios by leveraging recommended practices.
• Understand capabilities and practices to secure, manage and scale the platform.
• Understand and put in practice installation and upgrade processes.

The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.

Module 1: Fundamentals

• Familiarize with Apigee product capabilities and its place in the enterprise architecture.
• Familiarize with Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Anthos concepts.
• Discuss REST fundamentals.

Module 2: Architecture

• Discuss Apigee hybrid architecture.
• Gain understanding of Apigee technology stack.
• Discuss Apigee terminology and organizational structure.
• Familiarize with Apigee API.

Module 3: Installation and Platform Operation

• Discuss installation process.
• Discuss installation prerequisites.
• Gain detail understanding of and practice installation process.
• Discuss post installation tasks and recurrent activities recommended for the platform.
• Gain understanding common operational capabilities and practices.
• Discuss backup and restore strategy.

Module 4: Deployment and Environment Management

• Familiarize with API proxy concept and deployment process.
• Familiarize with API tracing and debugging.
• Discuss Developer Portal solutions.
• Gain understanding of and practice capabilities available for environment management.

Module 5: Security

• Discuss infrastructure security.
• Discuss data storage and encryption.
• Discuss hybrid access management capabilities and RBAC.

Module 6: Capacity Planning and Scaling

• Discuss capacity planning considerations.
• Gain understanding of and practice capabilities to scale up/down runtime components.

Module 7: Upgrade

• Familiarize with upgrade process.
• Discuss rollback process.

Module 8: Logging and Monitoring

• Familiarize with logging capabilities.
• Understand metrics generated and captured by the system.
• Discuss Apigee analytics.
• Discuss monitoring and troubleshooting techniques.
• Familiarize with Apigee support process.

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