Lifecycle Manager and the Lifecycle API

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Lifecycle Managerand the

Lifecycle API


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Your ApplicationYour APIYour Customers


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Applications and

ServicesApps

API Producers

API Consumers


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• Build the right services & APIs the right way

Lifecycle Management


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Analytics

Developer Engagement

Gateway Services

Service Integration

Lifecycle Management


Lifecycle Manager – Delivering Enterprise APIs

• APIs must be treated as products to maximize their successful uptake– Consistency across operations and APIs – naming, usage patterns– Documentation– SDKs– Live sandbox environments for app onboarding– etc.

• How can enterprises achieve the necessary level of quality and consistency for their APIs?– “Just enough governance” – define the content, rules and roles required to

produce and expose enterprise-quality APIs – Automate what you can– Review what you can’t automate

• Lifecycle Manager gives you the flexibility to define “just enough governance” and the automation to deliver your APIs seamlessly to your customers


Why a Lifecycle API?

• Ease of integration is important for efficient API lifecycle process automation– Cross-infrastructure and platform– Supporting multiple end-user modes

• Lifecycle Manager provides a Lifecycle API to give customers maximum flexibility with their processes– REST-based– Leveraging JSON Schema and Alpaca form markup syntax– Front-ending Lifecycle Manager’s powerful and flexible process

automation engine– Available via PaaS and on-premise based deployments


Typical Lifecycle API Use Cases• API Portal (Community Manager) User and App onboarding

– Configurable forms to gather user/app info, collect agreements, etc.– Configurable role-based notifications and approvals

• Mobile app based API SDLC approvals– Deliver approval requests to stakeholders on their preferred platform

• DevOps automation– Our demo example


Lifecycle API DevOps Automation Scenario• Use Lifecycle Manager to tag designated Continuous Integration

builds as “deployable” and to automatically deploy those builds to targeted operational platforms after approval

• For demo purposes, we’ll simulate this scenario using a designated GitHub repository (representing the build output repository) and Amazon S3 bucket (representing the targeted deployment platform)


DEMO


Key Lifecycle Manager Features

• AnySource Asset Adapter– Enables automated rule-based scanning of repositories to support both

SDLC and DevOps-related processes– Prebuilt implementations for GitHub, CVS, Subversion, Microsoft Team

Foundation Server, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational ClearCase, Serena PVCS, Perforce and any WebDAV-enabled repository

– Also available as full source framework to extend to any target system of record

• Process Automation Framework– Fully configurable platform supporting automated and role-based policies– Flexible Beanshell/Jython task extension framework– Easy access to audit history via SQL read only views

• Lifecycle API– Efficient access to Lifecycle Manager’s powerful process automation

framework– Designed to support rapid form development using Alpaca for easy

integration into your platforms and tools


Flexible Deployment Model


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