Summary

Building a DevOps pipeline is a key component in driving digital transformation. In this chapter, you learned about a number of products that help drive your DevOps initiative. You learned about Git and how it manages version control and participates in Pipeline as Code. You also learned that you can use a tool such as Jenkins to drive your DevOps. Jenkins provides many features and multiple plugins that help make the effort easier. A critical component of the API Connect DevOps process involves using the API Connect CLIs. You learned that those commands need to be installed on all Jenkins nodes and that a tool such as Ansible Automation could help manage the updates to the CLI.

From a publishing standpoint, you also learned that you can use the Platform APIs that come with API Connect. What you learned about the Platform APIs is an alternative way to run an APIC configuration. Whenever you see a feature within the API Manager GUI, you now know that there is a supporting...