Cloud-native development made simpler and more flexible.

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are key to agile integration and delivering business value in a digital world. Support innovation, enable cross-enterprise agility, and create new products and revenue streams.

Red Hat 3scale API Management makes it easy to manage your APIs. Share, secure, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs on an infrastructure platform built for performance, customer control, and future growth. Place 3scale components on-premise, in the cloud, or on any combination of the two.

Overview

Manage, monetize, and secure APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management

DO240: Build and Administer APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management is a hands-on, lab-based course that gives SREs and administrators an introduction to managing cloud-native APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management. This course enables developers and administrators to install, administer, monetize, secure and document your cloud-native APIs.

This course is based on Red Hat 3scale API Management 2.11.

Skills Covered

  • Understand 3scale API Management architecture and primary features.
  • Learn typical API use cases and strategies.
  • Install 3scale API Management on OpenShift.
  • Establish and configure subscription plans and rate limits.
  • Configure and customize the API gateway using policies.
  • Monitor and analyze API traffic.
  • Configure and test API service discovery.
  • Configure a developer portal and monetize your APIs.
  • Configure API security using tokens, API key-pairs, and OAuth/OIDC using Red Hat Single Sign-on (SSO).

Prerequisites

Target Audience

  • Site Reliability Engineers and OpenShift Administrators interested in using 3scale API Management to manage, monitor, secure, and monetize their cloud-native APIs.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Red Hat 3scale API Management

  • Describe API management concepts and the architecture of Red Hat 3scale API Management.

Module 2: Manage APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management

  • Manage your cloud-native APIs with the Red Hat 3scale Admin Portal.

Module 3: Manage and customize API gateways

  • Configure and customize the API Gateway using standard policies.

Module 4: Secure APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management

  • Secure access to APIs using various mechanisms.

Module 5: Create a developer portal

  • Configure Developer Portals for external consumption and documentation of your APIs.

Module 6: Monitor APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management

  • Configure monitoring and analytics for APIs and the 3scale API management infrastructure.

Module 7: Monetize APIs with Red Hat 3Scale API Management

  • Monetize APIs by configuring billing plans and pricing rules.

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Exam & Certification

Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management.

A Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management is able to use the Red Hat® 3scale API Management platform to create and maintain enterprise APIs.

A Red Hat Certified Specialist of in API Management is capable of performing these tasks:

  • Create and manage API users and groups, including configuring credentials.
  • Control and monitor access to APIs, including credentials, tokens, and SSO integration.
  • Monitor API usage and analyze alerts, traffic, and integration errors.
  • Configure and implement API documentation.
  • Implement API usage billing.
  • Implement API portals, including legal terms and developer settings.
  • Implement service definition and discovery.

Training & Certification Guide

A robust API Management solution is at the forefront of the enterprise digital transformation along with cloud-native microservice architectures, and agile development practices. Red Hat 3scale API Management allows organizations to easily increase customer value by securely exposing your APIs for consumption with fine-grained control and monetization options, and simplifies the ability to manage the services provided by your APIs.

This course develops the skills needed to produce secure, scalable, and reliable APIs that are managed by Red Hat 3scale API Management.

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to accelerate the adoption of your APIs for consumption by your customers, partners, and internal users by using 3scale API Management. You will be able to achieve this through learning and demonstrating the following skills:

  • Install and configure 3scale API Management.
  • Create, manage, monitor and monetize APIs.
  • Establish and configure API subscription plans and configure rate limits.
  • Create developer portals for documenting your APIs and onboarding developers and partners.
  • Secure access to your APIs using API keys, key-pairs and OAuth/OIDC using Red Hat Single Sign-on (SSO).

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management exam (EX240) tests your ability to create and maintain enterprise APIs using Red Hat® 3scale API Management.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

This exam is based on Red Hat 3scale API Management 2.4.

  • Application developers in a DevOps role who are responsible for managing enterprise APIs using 3scale by Red Hat
  • Administrators or architects in a DevOps role who are responsible for managing enterprise APIs using 3scale by Red Hat

To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam.

You should be able to accomplish these tasks without assistance:

  • Access control
    • Create and maintain application plans
    • Configure limits and pricing rules
  • Accounts
    • Create and update user accounts
    • Configure user credentials
    • Send user invitations
    • Maintain group memberships
    • Configure usage rules and information gathered from users
    • Maintain application states and plans
  • Analytics
    • Monitor usage, averages, and top applications
    • Analyze alerts, traffic, and integration errors
  • API authentication
    • Maintain API credentials
    • Configure access tokens
    • Provide access control using OpenID Connect, API key, and/or App_ID, App_Key Pair
    • Configure SSO integration
  • API documentation
    • Configure ActiveDocs using OpenAPI standards
  • Billing
    • Configure payment gateway
    • Configure credit card policies
    • Configure billing periods
    • Update users billing state
    • Configure billing details and invoice items
    • Issue, charge, and cancel invoices
  • Developer portal
    • Customize developer portal
    • Configure legal terms
    • Configure portal settings
  • Service discovery
    • Add services from an underlying OpenShift cluster
  • Service definition
    • Configure methods and metrics
  • Service integration
    • Configure API gateway to point to private API
    • Promote API gateway to staging and production
    • Customize service authentication settings and service response
    • Create and maintain custom service policies

Red Hat encourages you to consider taking Build and Administer APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management (DO240) to help prepare. Attendance in these classes is not required; students can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of one’s preparation to take this exam, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat’s products are available. Red Hat does not officially endorse any as preparation guides for its exam. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading deepens understanding and can prove helpful.

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If you’re an application developer, administrator, or architect who is in a DevOps role and responsible for managing enterprise APIs using 3scale by Red Hat, you may be interested in becoming a Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management.

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