Tutorials

These tutorials guide you through the steps typically required to set up, configure and run an API Connect cloud. These tutorials cover topics such as creating the cloud topology, creating Provider organizations, developing and publishing API Products, and promoting those products to external developers.

Introduction

These tutorials are arranged according to the desired goal, such as creating and publishing an API, or managing catalogs of products, or consuming published API products. These goals can be grouped into categories as follows.

Table 1. Tutorial Categories
Category	Description
Cloud Administration	Setting up and configuring the API Connect cloud, including the creation of Provider Organizations.
API Provider Administration	Setting up and managing catalogs, inviting organization members (such as developers), creating Developer Portals, managing resources.
API Product Development and Management	Developing and publishing APIs, products and plans, managing product life cycles.
API Product Promotion and Usage	Managing the Developer Portal presentation and user administration, as well as consuming published API products as an external developer.

Time required

Each tutorial should take approximately 20 - 30 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts that are related to this tutorial, it might take longer.

Use the links in the following sections to access the tutorials that fit your goals.

Cloud Administration

Table 2. Cloud Administration Tasks. Setting up and configuring the API Connect cloud, including the creation of Provider Organizations.
Category	Tutorials
Initial Configuration	Initial Cloud Configuration
Provider Organization	Creating a Provider Organization

API Provider Administration

Table 3. API Provider Tasks. Setting up and managing catalogs, inviting organization members (such as developers), creating Developer Portals, managing resources.
Category	Tutorials
Developer Portal Set Up	Creating the Portal Register a Consumer Application

API Product Development and Management

Table 4. API Development. Developing and publishing APIs, products and plans, managing product life cycles.
Note: All tutorials listed here use the API Manager interface. The user experience using the API Designer may differ.
Category	Tutorials
Getting Started	Invoke a REST API Create a SOAP API from WSDL Import an API
Building APIs	Expose SOAP as REST API Mapping JSON Content
Security	Using OAuth Password Grant Tokens Using OpenID Connect security Generating a JSON Web Token (JWT) Validating a JSON Web Token (JWT)
Managing APIs	Supercede an Existing API

API Product Promotion and Usage through the Developer Portal

There are many tutorials available for the Developer Portal from getting started to advanced customization. For more information, see Developer Portal tutorials.

Prerequisites

You must have a web browser available, whether you are working online or offline.
When publishing Products in any of the tutorials you must have the permissions of an Organization Manager or Administrator. However, you can complete several of the tutorials with fewer permissions. For more information about user roles, see Administering user access.