Apigee API hub is now generally available

APIs are more popular than ever, but challenges abound.

The API landscape is experiencing significant growth. APIs are commonly used to access AI models, connect applications, and drive innovation. But with this rapid expansion comes a challenge: finding,developing, governing and securing APIs.

Apigee API hub: Take Control of Your API Ecosystem

Managing APIs can be complex. Organizations often find themselves dealing with a large sprawl of heterogeneous APIs developed and deployed across many API gateways, making it difficult to maintain a clear picture of the entire API landscape.

Apigee API hub helps organizations tackle this challenge. It acts as a central repository for all your APIs, regardless of where they're hosted or who created them. This gives you a single source of truth for your entire API ecosystem, making it easier to manage, govern, and observe all your APIs in one place.

Here's how API hub helps you take control:

• Consolidate all your APIs: API hub acts as a unified platform to register all your APIs and associated metadata, no matter where the APIs live. It seamlessly integrates with Apigee X and Apigee Hybrid. We built API hub with extensibility in mind, so you can adapt it to incorporate API information and metadata from all locations using its open APIs. This consolidated view eliminates silos and provides comprehensive visibility across your entire API ecosystem.

• Unlock powerful search: API hub offers both traditional filter-based search and AI-powered semantic search. This means you can search using natural language, find APIs based on functionality ("send a message"), or even search for specific error codes("find inconsistent-versioning lint error"). Developers and API consumers can quickly determine if an API already exists, reuse that one, or collaborate on creating a new API.

• Streamline your API development lifecycle: API hub can be integrated into your existing development lifecycle and CI/CD pipeline. Leverage API hub's events and actions to trigger workflows like reviews and release approvals, or automate the creation and deployment of proxy configurations to API gateways. API hub’s event-based automation helps customers ensure consistency and quality throughout the API lifecycle.

• Turbocharge API creation and Integrations using Generative AI: API hub's rich enterprise context can be leveraged to drastically speed up the creation of new APIs with the help of generative AI. For instance, Gemini Code Assist for Apigee uses API hub data to accelerate development and promote consistency. Application Integration uses Gemini and API hub to automatically suggest the best connector/REST configuration for your integrations.

The Art of the Possible: Where Apigee API hub Can Take You

APIs are building blocks for your businesses and represent your company's data and processes. Apigee API hub is developing powerful features designed to streamline your API portfolios, including deepening compliance controls to enable adherence to regulations and provide verification of data handling. Here's a glimpse of what we are working next:

Unprecedented Visibility in Relationships and Control: Imagine having a comprehensive view of your entire API landscape. API hub is developing features to visualize API connections and interactions, analyze dependencies to assess the impact of changes, and optimize your API landscape for maximum efficiency.

Deepen API Knowledge and Foster Collaboration: Envision a centralized inventory of all your APIs, complete with descriptions, specifications, and documentation. API hub is working to provide detailed information about each API, including its purpose, the gateway it came from, owner, version history, and associated resources. This shared knowledge will empower you to create new API assets that adhere to your organization's standards.

Standardized API Governance: API hub is laying the groundwork for proactive API governance. Imagine this: new APIs deployed on gateways are automatically fed into API hub using Application Integration. API hub then performs checks for quality and compliance. With Event Arc integration, if issues like linting errors are found, platform/governance teams are instantly notified. This allows them to collaborate with the appropriate teams and ensure strong API governance from the start.

Ready to get started?

Navigate to API hub in your Google Cloud project and enable it. Within few minutes you’ll be able to:

1. Gain a unified view of all your APIs across Apigee Orgs from a single hub instance.

2. Find the APIs you need faster with powerful search capabilities.

3. Accelerate development and promote best practices by using Gemini Code Assist to generate API specifications.

4. Speed Up integrations by using Application Integration and Gemini to automatically suggest the best connector connector/REST configuration for your Application Integration workflows.

API hub is now generally available. To learn more and get started, visit the Apigee API hub documentation.