Course Content
Learn how to install and manage Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform in a hybrid cloud. This course uses lectures and a lab to show you how to install, manage, and scale your Apigee hybrid API Platform.
Who should attend
Cloud Architect, Cloud Engineer
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Linux command and command line interface.
- Basic understanding of Google Cloud.
- Basic understanding of Anthos and GKE.
- Basic understanding of networking.
- Basic understanding of shell script, XML, JSON, HTTP, REST, and TLS.
Course Objectives
- Identify the purpose and value of Apigee API Platform.
- Describe basic concepts and capabilities of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, REST, and Anthos.
- Discuss Apigee API Platform architecture and recommended practices for topology design.
- Explain Apigee terminology and logical organizational structures.
- Install Apigee hybrid on Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Discuss infrastructure security, user access management, data storage, and encryption practices used in Apigee hybrid.
- Manage environments in Apigee hybrid.
- Discuss capacity planning and scale runtime components in the hybrid runtime plane.
- Describe the upgrade and rollback process used for the Apigee hybrid installation.
- Troubleshoot and monitor the hybrid runtime plane components using logs, metrics, and analytics
Outline: Managing Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform for Hybrid Cloud (T-APIHYB-B)
Module 01: Fundamentals
Topics
- Apigee overview
- Introduction to Google Cloud
- Introduction to Kubernetes and Anthos
- REST concepts
Objectives
- Describe the Apigee API management platform, and the services and features it provides.
- Describe basic concepts and the capabilities of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, REST, and Anthos.
Activities
- 1 quiz
Module 02: Architecture
Topics
- Terminology and organizational structure
- Architecture
- Networking
- Apigee API
Objectives
- Describe the architecture and networking used in Apigee hybrid, and the various components that are used to operate the runtime plane.
- Describe the terminology, organizational structure, and the management API used in Apigee hybrid.
Activities
- 1 quiz
Module 03: Installation and platform operation
Topics
- Installation process
- Platform operation
- Backup and restore
Objectives
- Describe the process involved in installing Apigee hybrid.
- Describe the tools and commands used to configure and manage the components of the hybrid runtime plane.
- Perform an installation of the Apigee hybrid runtime plane in a Kubernetes cluster on GKE.
- Configure the Apigee hybrid runtime plane.
- Configure Apigee hybrid environments and environment groups by using the Apigee hybrid UI.
- Deploy simple API proxies to the Apigee hybrid environments.
- Validate Apigee hybrid environments by testing API proxies.
Activities
- 1 lab and 1 quiz
Module 04: Deployment and environment management
Topics
- Building and deploying API proxies
- Debugging
- Developer portal solutions
- Managing environments
Objectives
- Manage environments and API proxy deployments in Apigee hybrid.
Activities
- 1 quiz
Module 05: Security
Topics
- Infrastructure security
- Data storage and encryption
- RBAC
Objectives
- Determine how hybrid runtime components communicate securely within the runtime plane and with the hybrid management plane in Google Cloud.
- Describe how data is encrypted and how you can use role-based access control to manage user access in Apigee hybrid.
Activities
- 1 quiz
Module 06: Capacity planning and scaling
Topics
- Capacity planning
- Scaling
Objectives
- Determine how to plan capacity for the Apigee hybrid runtime plane.
- Scale the Apigee hybrid runtime components
Activities
- 1 quiz
Module 07: Upgrade
Topics
- Upgrade process
- Rollback process
Objectives
- Upgrade an Apigee hybrid installation to a new release.
- Discuss the steps to roll back an upgraded Apigee hybrid installation.
Activities
- 1 quiz
Module 08: Logging and monitoring
Topics
- Logging
- Metrics
- Analytics
- Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Apigee support
Objectives
- Explain how the Apigee runtime plane generates logs, metrics, and analytics data.
- Monitor the health of Apigee hybrid runtime plane components.
- Troubleshoot issues with the runtime components, using logs and metrics data.
Activities
- 1 quiz