This course introduces you to the fundamentals and advanced practices used to install and manage Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for private cloud. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, install, secure, manage, and scale the Apigee API Platform for Private Cloud.

What you'll learn

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

Target Audience

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.

Products

• Apigee

Course Modules

Module 1: Architecture

• Familiarize with Apigee product capabilities and its place in the enterprise architecture
• Gain an understanding of the Apigee technology stack
• Gain a basic understanding of Apache Cassandra capabilities and how they are leveraged by the 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 the installation process
• Discuss post installation tasks and recurring activities recommended for the platform
• Learn how to uninstall the platform

Module 3: Developer Portal installation

• Discuss the role of the Apigee Developer Portal
• Discuss recommended practices for hosting the Developer Portal
• Discuss the software distribution and installation process

Module 4: Management

• Discuss platform operations capabilities and recommended practices
• Discuss the role of the Management API and how it is leveraged by the platform
• Gain an understanding of the API deployment process
• Gain an understanding of Apigee analytics
• Discuss infrastructure operations capabilities and recommended practices

Module 5: Security

• Discuss Apigee capabilities to secure API traffic
• Understand how to configure TLS and mTLS for critical path components and user facing interfaces
• Learn how to configure single sign-on (SSO)

Module 6: Upgrade

• Discuss upgrade planning and recommended practices
• Discuss upgrade prerequisites and dependencies
• Learn and practice the upgrade process
• Discuss rollback scenarios and the rollback process

Module 7: Capacity Planning and Scaling

• 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

Module 8: Monitoring

• 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

Module 9: Troubleshooting

• Discuss failure scenarios and troubleshooting practices
• Understand the Apigee support mode