API Connect
In the previous chapter, you learned about several API-led responsibilities. In order to accomplish API activities (such as applying security, establishing rate limits, building and deploying using DevOps pipelines, and socializing your APIs), you need to be familiar with how API Connect makes those tasks easy to accomplish.
Currently, IBM supports three versions of API Connect (that is, version 5, version 2018, and version 10). At the time of writing, support for version 5 will be removed in April 2022. Version 2018 was released in April 2018. At that time, IBM was using release numbers based on the year of release. In 2020, they changed it back again to use a version number of 10, so v10.0.1.5 is the current latest version. IBM uses a version number strategy (VRMF - Version, Release, Modification, Fix pack) based on the following:
- Version: Major feature changes
- Release: The release of minor feature changes
- Modification: Manufacturing refresh also known...