Summary
Having the ability to create, package, and share common functionality across your organization provides many benefits. Not only does it save time in development, but it provides a high level of confidence that it's been thoroughly tested as well as providing consistency. APIC provides the ability through the use of user-defined policies to combine as much functionality as desired into one shareable policy. With the flexibility of Catalog UDPs and global UDPs, you can choose what type of functionality you wish to incorporate and the scope of users that you wish to share the UDP with.
Throughout this chapter, you learned the benefits and differences of each type of UDP as well as how to configure and install them. Through the use and experimentation of these policies, you will certainly learn the endless possibilities, flexibility, and benefits of them.
At this point, you should have a good understanding of how to build some basic and advanced APIs using the features...
