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Lifecycle Manager
and the
Lifecycle API

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What is an API?
Your ApplicationYour APIYour Customers

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Extend the Reach of your Business

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The API Platform
Transform
& Secure
Publish Monetize
Dev.
Adoption
API
SOAP to REST
Mobile-
Optimization
OAuth
Mediation
Analytics API Documentation
Applications
and Services
Apps
API Producers API Consumers

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Unified SOA & API Platform
• Measure the impact of
your programsAnalytics
• Build your developer
and partner ecosystem
Developer
Engagement
• Secure and protect
your systemsGateway Services
• Simplify and speed up
development
Service
Integration
• Build the right services
& APIs the right way
Lifecycle
Management

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The Unified SOA & API Platform
Analytics
Developer
Engagement
Gateway Services
Service Integration
Lifecycle
Management

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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DEMO

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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

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Flexible Deployment Model

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Questions

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API and SOA Resources
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– http://lm.epaas.info/LMApiDemo/
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– http://resource.soa.com/
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