Azure API Management (APIM ) Masterclass From Zero to Master

Explore API basics, including what an API is, its role in modern applications, and its place as the backbone of microservice architecture, with real-world analogies.

Explore how an API processes a client request—from validation and authentication to authorization and execution—and returns a response, covering rest, soap, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket.

Discover how Azure API Management provides centralized control, security, analytics, and automation to govern thousands of APIs, prevent data leaks, and enable scalable, consistent implementations.

Explore the core concepts of API management by creating an API instance, hosting a hello world API, and examining the API object model, workspaces, products, and gateways.

Create your first hello world API in Azure API Management, wiring front end, inbound, back end, and outbound processing, add a handshake operation, and test with Postman.

Leverage workspaces to provide logical isolation for APIs within a single APIM instance, with per-workspace RBAC and separate APIs, products, named values, and policies.

Create and manage products in Azure API Management, bundling APIs with quotas and limits, apply product-level policies, manage subscriptions, control access via RBAC groups, and control publish status.

Explore how groups and users control access to APIs and products, manage subscriptions at product and global levels, and use named values and keywords in the APIM object model.

Explore the architecture of Azure APIM, distinguishing data plane from control plane, illustrate data flow and hello world policy, and outline observability and git-based management.

Explore Azure APIM gateway types: managed gateway hosted by Azure and self-hosted gateway for on-prem. Includes vnet integration, central configuration, local routing for data redundancy, and premium tier enterprise features.

Explore Azure API Management pricing tiers from consumption to premium, comparing slas, caching, and scale out, with notes on custom domains, self-hosted gateway, and when to switch tiers.

Adopt best practices for apis with versioning, secret management in key vault, rate limits, and policy fragments, while tracing, error handling, and understanding data plane versus management plane.

Explore Azure API Management architecture fundamentals, policies, and component model, including control, data, and user planes, policy lifecycles, policy fragments, and multi-region design.

Learn the APIM architecture with three planes—control, data, and user—and how the API gateway, policies, and developer portal enable secure, scalable API management and observability.

Explore the API component model’s three planes—control plane, data plane, and user plane (developer portal)—and see how the portal enables API sharing and RBAC.

Explore the APIM request lifecycle, detailing inbound, back end, front end, outbound, and error policies, how each executes in sequence, and how failures trigger error policies with status code handling.

Master the policy framework in Azure API Management with XML-based inbound, back end, outbound, and error policies across global, product, API, and operation levels; store reusable policy fragments in Git.

Explore how to create and use policy fragments in Azure API Management, including defining a fragment header, referencing fragments in outbound responses, and testing with Postman.

Learn how to integrate apim with vnet, private endpoints, and nsg rules. Explore tls/mtls, custom domains, and premium multi-region deployment; dns management, active-active gateways, latency, data residency, and cost implications.

Explore reference architectures for azure api management, including hub and spoke with vnet peering, private endpoints, hybrid self-hosted gateways, and multi-region active-active deployments managed by DNS or front door.

Learn best practices for Azure API Management architecture and policies, including control and user planes, policy fragments, cache idempotence, throttling, error handling, and six reference patterns for secure publishing.

Explore api security concepts including authentication, authorization, JWT policies, transport layer security, and how products, groups, and subscriptions influence secure publishing and versioning.

Explore api management security options, including authentication, authorization, transport layer security, governance, and policy-driven controls with subscription keys, OAuth 2.0, JWT, OIDC, client certificates, MTLS, products, and groups.

Explore how Azure API Management handles versioning and revisions with v1, v2, v3, and releases, while enabling secure token validation through JWTs, policies, and mutual TLS using Keyvault.

Demonstrates securing a Hello World API with a JWT authorization policy in Azure API Management, configuring OpenID configuration URL, audience, and claims, and testing with Postman using a bearer token.

Demonstrates implementing a JWT policy in Azure API Management by creating two apps, exposing an API, and obtaining a token via OAuth 2.0 PKCE for validation.

Master static rate limits, dynamic rate limits, and quotas in APIM to control API calls, distinguish free and premium plans, and handle 429 responses.