Deployable API Infrastructure with NGINX

The industry presents us in terms of API management solutions with a hard trial, and always promises holistic ("full lifecycle") solutions. But an important component for a successful API, in the sense of fast and high-quality time-to-market, is often left out and usually dismissed with a simple sentence such as: "We'll take care of that via a CI/CD pipeline". In this presentation, I would like to show how nginx can be a part of infrastructure to send APIs that meet the respective guidelines of a company on their way to rapid deployment, supported by CI/CD pipelines with a certain degree of automation. In order to create a certain value for the company.

Speakers:
Daniel Kocot

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Deployable Infrastructure based on a API description
01:17 API Mediation
02:59 OpenAPI Specification
03:22 OpenAPI Definition in Detail
04:08 OpenAPI Map
04:44 Use of reference with $ref
05:36 Use of OpenAPI Extensions/X-Objects to handle own or vendor needs
06:57 From OpenAPI Definition to Configuration as Code
08:09 Converting YAML to JSON
08:57 Parsing JSON
09:38 Fetch Information
10:03 Creating nginx configuration
11:44 Automation
12:56 No standardization (so far)
14:16 APIOps in action