API Platform Cloud Service – Plans by Niall Commiskey

According to the docs, a plan is – an abstraction between applications (the clients consuming APIs) and APIs to allow fine-grained access entitlements to all APIs that are part of a plan.

All APIs are now accessed via plans, in other words, you cannot register applications to use individual APIs outside of a plan. To re-iterate, developers will create an application and register
this with a plan. All this is done in the APIP CS Developer Portal.

There is a new role in APIP CS to manage plans – Plan Manager. I login to the Management Portal as such – Read the complete article here.

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Teaching How to use Terraform to automate Provisioning of Oracle API Platform by Carlos Rodriguez Iturria

Previously, I showed how to use Terraform and PSM CLI to spin up a “Build Server” and use it to provision Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) environments. You can find this blog here.

In this blog I am going to show you how to do the same, but to provision Oracle API Platform environments.

The approach that I will be following is the same:

Before we start

• I encourage you to read the previous blogs, which I am building on top.
  • How to use Terraform to provision Oracle Integration Cloud, click here.
  • How to use Terraform, click here.
  • How to use PSM CLI, click here.
  • How to use Vagrant. click here.
• You need an Oracle Cloud account, if you don’t have one yet, request a trial, they are free.

Create your Build Server:

I already explained with step by step instructions how to build your “Build Server” in a previous blog. Please refer to this blog if you have not yet created your “Build Server”.

The way I create the “Build Server” allows you to deploy any Oracle PaaS, this is a list of some of the available services in my Oracle Cloud environment: Read the complete article here.

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Rubicon Red Uses Oracle Cloud to Grow Green Business

Automating their end-to-end sales process with Oracle Integration Cloud and Mobile Cloud Enterprise saved Rubicon Red’s innovative professional services business 90% in cloud costs for trial provisioning and cut time spent from weeks to seconds. Watch the video here.

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Provision Oracle Integration Cloud Using Stack Templates

Complete a template that automatically provisions the required set of services together to get you up and running (Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and Oracle Storage Cloud Service for data storage and backups).

For more information, see Creating an Instance with the Oracle Cloud Stack Template

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Integration Cloud – Lets POC and get our feet wet by Kevin King

At a recent client, I had a "citizen integrator" ask me to show them some of the orchestrations that I’ve created in ICS, and how I went about creating them.  I began showing off some of the integrations, and some of the POCs that I created.  I didn’t get very far until he stopped me and asked, how I was able to invoke the integrations to test them.  This is when I realized he had previously attempted to create some integrations, but didn’t understand what he created, or how to trigger them and see them in action.

How do I test my integration on Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS)?

So, let’s take a common scenario, where you are asked to verify that an integration works from ICS or as a developer you want to explore a new integration you are going to interact with. We are going to look at the most common type of integrations, ‘Orchestration’.  Oracle has this all documented here, so feel free to jump there for more thorough documentation!

On creating a new Orchestration integration, the first decision is ‘What triggers this integration?’.  There are two options,  ‘Schedule’ and ‘Application event or business object’… So what are these, and what should I choose.

Trigger 1: Schedule

Let’s start with Scheduled, as this is the quickest option to ‘try out’ an integration or mapping.

Creating a ‘Scheduled’ orchestration is meant for exactly as it sounds, a schedule.  You can define it to run every minute, every hour, every Monday, whatever the requirement is…  The bonus feature about this option is the ‘Submit Now’ selection.  This makes it very easy to test!

Now, let’s create a new Orchestration, and select ‘Scheduled’ (make sure you follow best practices and add it to a package!). Read the complete article here.

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Teaching How to Design and Secure an API with Oracle API Platform by Carlos Rodriguez Iturria

The image below shows an easy to understand architecture with the various components mentioned above:

Are you ready? Let’s do it!

Pre-requisites

It is expected that you have access to the Oracle API Platform, if not, you can request a free trial at https://cloud.oracle.com/tryit

Also, it is assumed that you have already created your GitHub repository by forking from the MedRec SolutionsANZ repository and obtaining with this the full MedRec NodeJS application with its own API Swagger definition. If you have not completed these pre-requisites steps, please refer to this precursor blog.

API Design – Creating the API Definition with Apiary

In this section you are going to create a new personal Apiary account (in case you still don’t have one) and create a new API Project using the existing MedRec API Swagger definition from the MedRec SolutionsANZ repository.

If you still don’t have a personal Apiary account, follow the next steps:

• Go to https://apiary.io/
• You can click on Sign up on the top right corner or in this case we can sign up for free git GitHub, assuming that you already have a GitHub account from the previous blog.

Read the complete article here.

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Three Quick Tips API Platform CS – Gateway Installation (Part 2) By: Sunny Das

This is Part 2 of the blog series (The first part of the series can be accessed here). The aim of the blog post is to provide useful tips, which will enable the installation of the on premise Gateway for Oracle API Platform Cloud Services. If you want to know more about the product, then you can refer here.

The following tips are based on some of the scenarios, we have observed in production.

• If you find yourself in a situation where the "configure" or the "start" actions are taking a long time (We are talking upwards of 20 minutes), then a possible culprit could be Entropy. This can be confirmed by looking at the logs, a possible indicator is SSL cryptographic hash calculation is somehow failing. Entropy and it’s effect on the  Weblogic Server has been documented well in these blogs:
  • https://blogs.oracle.com/luzmestre/why-does-my-weblogic-server-takes-a-long-time-to-start
  • http://theheat.dk/blog/?p=1539

Essentially,to get past the entropy problem, you need to do the following (for Linux):

·    check the current entropy count by executing:

   cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail. Read the complete article here.

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