What is Azure API Management
Microsoft Azure API Management is a service that helps protect your mission critical systems with authentication, rate limiting, quotas and caching to ease load under pressure. Rest easy knowing that only the partners, developers and applications you’ve authorized have access to your APIs and that those groups are acting in accordance with your policies. Find out more on Azure.com
REST APIs
Like many services on Azure, API Management provides us with a comprehensive REST API. This API allows us to manage Users, Groups, Products and Subscriptions.
Working on a multi-region solution, I was really happy to see these APIs. One of the recurring challenges I face everyday, is to replicate my efforts across multiple deployments sprawled over many Azure regions. Now the only way to do this effectively is to automating everything!
As of August 2014 API Management is still in public preview and is going through constant evolution. New features make their way to production and pieces fall together. The newly released REST APIs are just that, a piece that was missing. Wanting to reduce my workload I decided to create a PowerShell Module to help automate some of my repetitive tasks.
Note: The API does not allow you to define APIs, Representations. The Developer Portal CMS is not accessible through these APIs. Although these are things I would love to interact with through the REST API, I’m hopeful that something will come along.
Before we start, there are a couple things we need to do. First we need to activate the Management APIs on our API Management service. Then we need to generate an access token. I opted for the manual process which you can follow on the Azure API Management REST API Authentication page. Continue Reading…
Alexandre Brisebois ☁ 