Managing Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform for Hybrid Cloud

Module 1) Fundamentals  

• Describe the Apigee API management platform, and the services and features it provides.
• Describe basic concepts and the capabilities of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, REST, and Anthos.

Module 2) Architecture

• Describe the architecture and networking used in Apigee hybrid, and the various components that are used to operate the runtime plane.
• Describe the terminology, organizational structure, and the management API used in Apigee hybrid.

Module 3) Installation and platform operation

• Describe the process involved in installing Apigee hybrid.
• Describe the tools and commands used to configure and manage the components of the hybrid runtime plane.
• Perform an installation of the Apigee hybrid runtime plane in a Kubernetes cluster on GKE.
• Configure the Apigee hybrid runtime plane.
• Configure Apigee hybrid environments and environment groups by using the Apigee hybrid UI.
• Deploy simple API proxies to the Apigee hybrid environments.
• Validate Apigee hybrid environments by testing API proxies.

Module 4) Deployment and environment management

• Manage environments and API proxy deployments in Apigee hybrid.

Module 5) Security

• Determine how hybrid runtime components communicate securely within the runtime plane and with the hybrid management plane in Google Cloud.
• Describe how data is encrypted and how you can use role-based access control to manage user access in Apigee hybrid.

Module 6) Capacity planning and scaling  

• Determine how to plan capacity for the Apigee hybrid runtime plane.
• Scale the Apigee hybrid runtime components

Module 7) Upgrade

• Upgrade an Apigee hybrid installation to a new release.
• Discuss the steps to roll back an upgraded Apigee hybrid installation.

Module 8) Logging and monitoring

• Explain how the Apigee runtime plane generates logs, metrics, and analytics data.
• Monitor the health of Apigee hybrid runtime plane components.
• Troubleshoot issues with the runtime components, using logs and metrics data.