What's New in API Connect & DataPower Gateway in 1H 2018

What’s New in API Connect &
DataPower Gateways
1H 2018
—
Amit Acharya, Arif Siddiqui
Program Director, Offering Management

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Agenda
 Overview
 What’s New in 1H 2018
 What’s New in API Connect
 API Connect Offering Structure
 What’s New in DataPower Gateway
 What’s New in API Manager
 What’s New in Developer Portal
 What’s New in Analytics

What is IBM API Connect?
Create
Automatically create and test APIs to expose
data, microservices, enterprise applications
and SaaS services.
Secure
Easily apply built-in and extensible policies to
secure, control and mediate the delivery of
APIs with unmatched scale.
Manage
Rapidly publish, lifecycle govern, socialize,
analyze, monitor and monetize APIs with
built-in capabilities.
The Scalable Multi-Cloud API Platform
A complete, modern and intuitive API
lifecycle platform to create, securely expose
and manage APIs across clouds to power
digital applications

Forrester Wave
IBM API Connect: Ranked #1
• Ranked as Leader by all Analysts
Forrester, Gartner, IDC, Ovum
• Trusted by enterprises of all sizes across industries
and geographies
500+ API Connect clients
2,000+ DataPower Gateway clients

Secure & Control yourAPIs with Industry leading API Gateway
• Secure to the core with signed, encrypted gateway image
without external software dependencies to minimize risk
• Proven API security policies at runtime to quickly protect
services and data across multi-clouds
• Performant & scalable architecture to help meet SLAs and
improve client user experience
• Optimized drag & drop built-in policies for security, traffic
control & mediation to accelerate time to value
• Flexible and extensible to align with enterprise
requirements and enable quick customization

Manage the Lifecycle of yourAPIs
• Define & Import REST or SOAP APIs to put those
assets under governance
• Package APIs into Products and tailor them to
target specific consumer markets
• Publish and Promote across different
environments to align with DevOps practices
• Manage and Control API Lifecycle and versioning
from staging to deprecation to meet corporate
governance needs
• Subscription and Community management to
grow go-to-market channels

Socialize and Engage with API Consumers to drive adoption
• Self-service, branded Portal across multiple
API provider lines of businesses within an
organization to socialize APIs
• Engage with API consumers via community
building features: blogs, forums, ratings etc.
• Governance & autonomy to each provider
organization to manage their APIs, products,
plans and multiple gateway endpoints
independently within their ‘Space’

Monetize yourAPI Calls
• Modern approach & intuitive user experience
providing flexibility to define pricing details
• Subscription pricing to enable recurring payments,
popular in SaaS go-to-market strategies
• Stripe integration OOTB for smooth user-onboarding
and payment collection
• Analytics, customizable reports for detailed insights
into revenue, usage of monetized APIs
• Offload API usage data to existing enterprise tools to
handle customized invoicing processes

Gain Insights into yourAPI Usage
• Analyze API calls to get visibility and understand API
consumption
Who &What is Driving my API Business?
What are the response times of my APIs ?
• Drill down and build custom queries for deeper analysis
• Build custom dashboards and share to address specific
reporting and visualization needs
• Offload usage data to external systems like Splunk or
your own Elastic stack

Accelerate API Developer Productivity
• Enforce corporate standards through templates
for API and API Product definitions
• Simplify API categorization & search through
customer defined metadata
• API Gateway behavior control based on the
additional metadata
• Integrated Loopback Experience for Interaction
tier
• Integrated with API ConnectToolkit for simpler
user experience to create APIs
LoopBack

Agenda
 Overview

13Think 2018 / March 2018 / © 2018 IBM Corporation
API ConnectV2018.1: Scale & Flexibility with Multi-Cloud Design
1Q 2018
• Multi-cloud API Gateway cluster support co-located
with provider backends on virtually any cloud, managed
within a single API Connect deployment
• Container/Kubernetes &VMware support for API
Connect components to run virtually anywhere
• Unmatched scalability and performance through new
container and microservices based design
• Independently scale API Connect components
leveraging container orchestration tools

Central Management ofAPIs across Multi-Cloud Deployments
Single-tenant, IBM managed API Connect with co-
located DataPower API Gateway on any Cloud
API Connect in Public Cloud
OR On-premises
Customer Managed
API Connect
API Gateway
API
API Gateway
API
API Gateway
API
API Gateway
API
API Gateway
API
Your API Connect with co-located DataPower
API Gateway on any Cloud
OR
API Connect Reserved
Instance in IBM Cloud
IBM Managed
API Connect
API Gateway
API
Customer Managed
API Gateway
On-Premises

API ConnectV2018.1: Deployment Options
• New Docker-based images with K8 orchestration for
container based deployments on a customer managed K8
environment or on IBM Cloud Private
• VMWare OVA support for clients to run on their existing
established enterprise virtualization platform
• Customer modifiable openVM images based on standard
Ubuntu OS for clients to customize based on corporate
governance needs
• API Gateway available in hardened cloud, virtual and
physical appliance form factors to improve security and
time to value

API ConnectV2018.1: Component options
• Standalone API Analytics component to scale
independently based on API project growth
• Zero to N portal clusters can be configured to a API
Connect deployment to align with API project growth
• Native install of APIC toolkit for enhanced user
experience
• V5 toV2018 Upgrade through automated migration
scripts with a parallel stack setup following modern
software practices, coming 2Q18

API ConnectV2018.1: WOW! Experience for Developers to Get Started
• 90% reduction in time to create your first API
• Radically improved developer experience
simplifying API definition and policy addition
• Three Easy steps to create an API Proxy and make
it live on the gateway for testing
• Create a live endpoint in 30 seconds with rate
limiting, security and automatically create an API
Key for testing
experience

API ConnectV2018.1: DevOps Ready forCI/CD Needs
• Comprehensive set of Public APIs to API Connect for
CI/CD integration and automation
• Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) for each API
operation facilitating end to end automation
• Orchestrate VMWare install using cloud-init
configuration for simpler operations and lowerTCO

19© 2018 IBM Corporation
• Analytics separation from the API Manager for
enhanced performance and scalability
• Improved management experience and
productivity with the newly redesigned analytics
tool, featuring interactive dashboards and
visualizations
• Enhanced administrator user control with direct
access to the Elastic stack configuration
• Greater flexibility for selective analytics
offloading to all the Logstash supported outputs,
i.e. beyond Elasticsearch, Syslog, and HTTP
API ConnectV2018.1: What’s New in Analytics

API ConnectV2018.1: What’s New in Developer Portal
• Modern UI/UX design based on customer and
market feedback
• Simple, powerful and extensible customizations
built on open-source Drupal 8
• Fast track app creation with a simple subscription
wizard designed to reduce friction
• Delight and increase app developer productivity
with a first class Portal Analytics experience
• Effectively engage your developer community
with custom email support

• Control visibility and share resources such as
gateways, user registries, etc for greater
governance and control
• EmailTemplates for notifications including
invites and tasks for customization to match
corporate branding
• Associate Analytics to specific Gateway services
to manage latency between them
• Role Based Access Control extended to Cloud &
Consumer orgs for granular control
• Federated User Registry support providing
flexibility to associate multiple identity
management systems
• New API Security policy definition at the
catalog-level reducing API development
complexity & simplifying user experience
• EnhancedTLS Profiles such as ciphers for fine
grained control
• Catalog Properties and Space Properties to
control environment specific variations
and much more …
API ConnectV2018.1: Continuing Innovation across API Lifecycle

• Two steps in < 1 minute to test your API endpoint
• No code, visual composer to create test sequences
• Validate payloads through pre-built assertions
• Integrate in to CI/CD processes for testing automation
using pre-built plugins
• Continuous performance & behavior monitoring of the
deployed APIs from across the globe
• Monitoring dashboards & test reports to provide
insights and easy diagnosis of any errors
IterativelyTest and Monitor the health of yourAPIs
2Q 2018

API ConnectV2018.1 & DataPowerV7.7 on IBM Cloud Private
• Securely expose business services and data in IBM Cloud
Private as APIs to accelerate innovation
• Production-ready DataPower Gateway on Docker,
running in < 1 minute, to accelerate time to value
• Native support for API Connect with optimizations for
logging and monitoring into IBM Cloud Private platform
services to reduce total cost of ownership
• Scale Individual API Connect components through IBM
Cloud Private’s Kubernetes Platform for simplified
scalability and response to unplanned usage spikes
1Q 2018

• Complement API management with
microservices management using Istio
• Expose APIs to external consumers using
DataPower Gateway, combining API security
with Kubernetes load balancing and monitoring
• End-to-end transaction tracing using Zipkin to
provide enhanced operational visibility across
microservices and APIs
IBM, along with Google, is a primary contributor
to Istio project. IBM API Connect & Gateway
offerings plan to integrate with this strategic
platform enabling clients to …
ISTIO +API Connect: API Management for your Microservices
Microservice
Microservice Microservice
DataPower
API Gateway
Microservices
application
Microservice
REST
REST
Microservice
REST
REST Messaging

Modern Support Lifecycle &Versioning
• Continuous Delivery providing new capabilities faster
while aligning to modern software practices
• LongTerm Support to ensure users have flexibility to
balance new innovation and stability, see link for details
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22006450
• Date basedVersioning consistent with cloud offerings
and aligned to modern software practices, using
Year.Quarter.Update, e.g. 2018.1.1

Key Difference between API ConnectV5 andV2018.X
API Connect V5 API Connect V2018.X
Upgrade to Major version In place upgrade from v4 to v5 Setup a parallel stack to upgrade v5 to v2018.x
Analytics capabilities Embedded within API Manager Runs as a separate component for scalability
API Manager internal OS Cast Iron OS (IBM Proprietary) Ubuntu, customer accessible for governance
Developer Toolkit Node Package Manager (NPM) based
installed bundling designer, CLI,
Microgateway, Loopback
- Native binaries for Win/Linux/Mac which
includes designer, CLI, Loopback for better UX
- Local API policy testing using DataPower API
Gateway on Docker
Registration of Members in Cluster Manual registration of members (Gateway
only) in cluster through CMC
Dynamic addition of members (Gateway,
Analytics, API Manager) to a cluster without
manual registration
CMC Monitoring Dashboards for System monitoring Integrate with enterprise monitoring tools
through SNMP for System monitoring
App management Start/Stop Apps from designer and CLIs Use native Cloud / runtime CLI to do App
management

Agenda
 Overview

Deployment
Deploy where it’s most convenient for you
• Deploy on IBM Cloud
• Deploy to 3rd party clouds
• Deploy on-premises
Licensing
Pay only for what you need
• Subscription (API calls/month or API calls/year)
• Perpetual (per PVU, unlimited API calls)
Number of APIs & API Products Unlimited
Number of API Application Developers Unlimited
Cloud infrastructure on IBM Cloud Included
Data transfer on IBM Cloud Included
API Connect: Flexible licensing and deployment

API Connect Offerings
API Connect
Essentials (aka Lite)
API Connect
Enterprise
For Developers For Departments & Cross Enterprise
No charge, with Forum support Paid, with IBM support
50K API calls/mo
- PayGo: 100K API calls/mo & above
- Subscription: 5 Million API calls/mo & above
- Subscription: Option for yearly call volume
measurement, i.e. API calls/yr
• IBM Support
• AdditionalAPI calls
• HA requirements
• AdvancedAPI Gateway Policies

Agenda
 Overview

Next Generation DataPower Gateway (IDG) X2 Appliance
• Up to 2X performance with next generation hardware
architecture compared to IBM DataPower Gateways
(IDG) for lowerTCO
• 2X 10GbE network ports compared to IDG to accelerate
application responsiveness
• Up to 4X RSA operations with 2048-bit keys using the
optional Hardware Security Module (HSM)
• Enhanced memory and workload capacity available for
higher performance and/or to run additional tenants
 One tenant for no-charge for API Connect
workloads on each DataPower Gateway physical
appliance
Action: Plan now to refresh existing
XG45, XI52 and XB62 DataPower
physical appliances that reach end of
service in 2019 with IDG X2.
1Q 2018

DataPower Gateway X2: New, Higher Performance & Capacity Hardware
9005
XG45, XI52, XB62
(Model 7198/7199 or 2426)
9006
IDG
(Model 8436)
9007
IDG X2
(Model 8441)
Rack Size 1U (XG45) or 2U (XI52, XB62) 2U 2U
Capacity 1X 1.5 - 2X 2 - 3X
Memory 24 GB DDR3 (1U)
96 GB DDR3 (2U)
192 GB DDR3 192 GB DDR4
Local Caching Max 6 GB (1U)
24 GB (2U)
48 GB 48 GB
Flash 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB
Isolated Tenants N/A 2 2
Network 2 x 10 GbE and 4 x 1 GbE (1U)
2 x 10 GbE and 8 x 1 GbE (2U)
2 x 10GbE
8 x 1GbE
4 x 10GbE
8 x 1GbE
HDD 2 x 300 GB (1U)
4 x 600 GB (2U)
2 x 1.2 TB 2 x 1.2 TB
RAID Controller 512K write cache, battery backup 1 GB write cache, flash + supercapacitor 2 GB write cache, 12Gb transfer
Crypto Accelerator 4K to 18K RSA Ops/s
(1024-bit)
6K to 150K RSA Ops/s
(2048-bit)
6K to 150K RSA Ops/s
(2048-bit)
Hardware Security Module (HSM) 3K RSA Ops/s (2048 bit RSA key) 3K RSA Ops/s (2048 bit RSA key) 7K to 10K RSA Ops/s (2048 bit RSA key)
CRUs Ethernet modules, Hard disk drive module, Fan
module, Power supply module, Cryptographic
accelerator card -> (link to CRU)
Ethernet modules, Hard disk drive module, Fan
module, Power supply module, serial console cable
DE-9, USB -> (link to CRU)
Ethernet modules, Hard disk drive module, Fan
Power supply module, Cavium crypto accelerator /
HSM -> (link to CRU)
FRUs Appliance, RAID backup battery & controller, CMOS
coin cell battery, Cryptographic accelerator card ->
((link to FRU))
Appliance, CPU, RAID backup battery & controller,
CMOS coin cell battery, Cavium crypto accelerator /
HSM, memory DIMM, flash drive -> (link to FRU)
RAID cache module/controller, SIM (storage),
cell battery, flash drive, DIMM memory -> (link to
FRU))

DataPower GatewayV7.7: Multi-cloud support forAPI Connect
• Easily migrate API Connect V5 gateway workloads to
API ConnectV2018.1 without any modification,
accelerating market delivery of APIs
• Increased operational resiliency providing maximum
availability during API manager maintenance and
unavailability periods
• Gateways can scale without manual registration in
API manager node, unleashing exciting new topologies
• Autonomic Gateway cluster management will allow
Gateways to self-heal without manual intervention
1Q 2018

Multi-cloud scalable API Manager & Gateway Architecture
API Manager
Gateway Cluster
API Connect V5
API Gateway
API Gateway
Gateway
Cluster Mgmt
• Gateway Cluster Management moved
from API Manager in V5 to API
Gateway in V2018.1
• API Data Replication performed
between API Gateway instances in
V2018.1, whereas in V5 it was
between API Manager and each API
Gateway instance
• Reduces runtime dependency
between the API Gateway and API
Manager in V2018.1
Cache
Cache
API Manager
Gateway Cluster
API Connect V2018.1
API Gateway
API Gateway
Gateway
Cluster Mgmt
Distributed
Cache
Distributed
Cache

Dynamic & AutonomousGateway Cluster Management
• Gateways can scale without manual
registration in API manager node,
unleashing exciting new topologies
• Autonomic Gateway cluster management
will allow Gateways to self-heal without
manual intervention
• Gateways contact peers within cluster to
obtain runtime information
• Rate Limit
• API definitions
• Subscriptions
API
Gateway
Primary
Secondary
Secondary
API
Gateway
API
Gateway
Add to
cluster
Distributed
Cache
Distributed
Cache
Distributed
Cache

DataPower API Gateway Service: Secure & PerformantAPIs
• Secure to the core with self-contained signed &
encrypted image to minimize risk, plus proven security
policies to quickly protect APIs
• Up to 5X increased performance with natively built API
Gateway using purpose-built technology for native
OpenAPI/Swagger REST and SOAP APIs
• Multi-cloud scalability and extensibility to help meet
SLAs and improve client user experience
• Optimized drag & drop built-in policies fully unleash the
power of the gateway for security, traffic control and
mediation including flexible OAuth, enhanced JSON &
XML threat protection
2Q 2018

DataPower Operations Dashboard (DPOD)V1.0.7
• Adds support for DataPower Gateway X2
• Monitor tenants running on DataPower physical
appliances with the new IsolatedTenant Module
support
• UX/UI improvements with transaction export and
latency alert capabilities
• Tighter integration with IBM API Connect with
new Recent Activity dashboard that displays a
high-level overview of APIs activity
• Improved DevOps with Firmware upgrade plan
capability for both virtual and physical for factors
• Enhanced reporting capabilities with new URI
summary and detailed latency reports
1Q 2018
APIs Activity on new Recent Activity
Dashboard

Agenda
 Overview

UI/UX Overhaul
• Seamless movement and workflow through
Cloud Manager and API Manager, with
breadcrumbs and IA hierarchy
• Developer Centric Experience that focuses on
rapid API creation and testing reducing time to
market for digital development teams
• Radically improved API editor simplifying API
definition and policy addition
experience

Gateway Service Management
• Configure geo-graphic High Availability, of
gateway services, and analytics to increase global
application performance
• Scope the available gateway services and their
policies, to minimize error and meet corporate
governance and security standards
• Rolling Updates of APIs with the ability to
selectively publish API definitions to gateway
services
• Simplified Management of API deployments to
gateways runtimes, with enhancements to
publishing capabilities and

Security & GovernanceTooling
• ControlVisibility and share resources such as
gateways, user registries etc. for greater
governance and control
• OAuth Provider integration, built from the API
Manager to be leveraged for API security
• EnhancedTLS Profiles such as ciphers for fine
grained control
• Role Based Access Control extended to Cloud and
Consumer orgs for granular control
• EmailTemplates for notifications including invites
and tasks for customization to match corporate
branding

Agenda
 Overview

• Modern UI/UX design based on customer
and market feedback
• Fast, focused, and engaging experience for
developers
• Pick up and go quickly with a familiar
UI/UX
• Enhanced developer productivity focused
on reducing information overload
• Seamless and consistent design with the
rest of API Connect
Modern UI/UX
UX/UI Redesign

vs.
IBM v.Next API Explorer IBM v5 API Explorer
UX/UI Redesign – New vs Old

• Simple, powerful and extensible customizations built
on open-source Drupal 8
• Improved branding and styling capabilities with
additional CSS classes
• Faster loading times and increased performance
through an improved UI and backend optimizations
• Enhanced Portal security to prevent malicious threats
such as spam bots
• Meet emerging globalization needs with a fully
translated Portal
Enhancements

• Fast track app creation with a simple
subscription wizard designed to reduce
friction
• App developers create more apps by
remaining productive and focused
• Reduce confusion and need to reference
documentation with inline help for Portal
admins
• Improved documentation with more
tutorials, detailed guides and more
Guided subscription wizard
Easy to Learn

• Delight and increase app developer
productivity with a first class analytics
experience
• Provides granular and actionable insights
app developers need into their app
• Easily configure notifications based on
analytic data that are sent via Portal and email
• Performant and faster loading speeds for
analytic visualizations
v.Next Portal Analytics
Portal Analytics

• Effectively engage your developer community
with custom email support
• Easily brand emails with a WYSIWYG editor and
token support
• Configurable ‘from’ address to select who the
email is coming from
• Advanced ability to select who you send ’to’
• Send based on user type or event and rule based
• Automatically translated emails depending on the
users preferred language
“they must communicate with
API users, both individually and
as a community”
- Forrester
Community Engagement

Agenda
 Overview

Improved Performance and Scalability
• Analytics separation from the API Manager for
enhanced performance and scalability
• Deploy multiple analytics services in
availability zone or datacenter of choice
• Co-locate analytics services with remotely
deployed gateways enhancing hybrid and
multi-cloud deployments
• Unleash the power of a leading open source
technology, the Elastic Stack, with more
capabilities and functionality exposed to users

• Stronger management experience with
interactive dashboards and visualizations
• Explore data on the Discover page
• Filter suggestions from the data for field of
interest
• Accelerate productivity with ability to clone
dashboards, visualizations, and searches with one
click
• Auto completion available in visualization fields
• View aggregate usage patterns within bounded
regions using thematic region maps
UI/UX Redesign

• Selective offloading that allows users to offload
analytics per Analytics service of their choosing
• Greater flexibility for offloading targets with full
access to Logstash supported outputs beyond
HTTP, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Syslog server
• Direct access to ELK stack configuration
(including UI configuration) via Elasticsearch REST
APIs
• Simple backup and restore experience to allow
storing snapshots of individual indices or an entire
cluster in a remote repository
Enhanced Offloading & Admin User Control

Resources
 https://developer.ibm.com/apiconnect/
 https://developer.ibm.com/datapower/docker/

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