[Question] Publishing APIs to same API Management instance

[jthipolito]

Release version

v4.10.3

Question Details

We have an API Management instance for our DEVTEST environment which currently contains the following:

• API: life-work-api-dev
• Product: life-work-integration-dev
• NamedValues: ClientIdDev
• ...

I was able to extract this using the extractor pipeline but would now like to publish it to the same API Management instance but with different names for it and its related entities (product, namedValues etc) like this:

• API: life-work-api-sit
• Product: life-work-integration-sit
• NamedValues: ClientIdSit
• ...

Is publishing an API to the same API Management instance possible?

Expected behavior

Able to create another set of API with different env names and config

Actual behavior

Sit objects are not created when publisher pipeline runs config.env.yaml

Reproduction Steps

1. Create API in API Management
2. Extract API and its related entities via extractor pipeline
3. Update config.env.yaml with names of API's to be created in same API Management instance (e.g. life-work-api-sit etc)
4. Run publisher pipeline

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[guythetechie]

@jthipolito - this is not supported. We use the resource names as keys and expect them to be the same in every APIM instance. Our configuration system allows you to change resource properties, but not their names.

To accomplish your goals with ApiOps, I would copy/paste the folders of my extracted resources.

1. Set up my APIM instance with API life-work-api-dev.
2. Run extractor. I will have a folder called /artifacts/apis/ life-work-api-dev.
3. Copy the folder and paste it with a new name /artifacts/apis/life-work-api-sit.
4. When I run the publisher, it will create API life-work-api-sit.

[jthipolito]

@guythetechie Thanks for this. It worked!