Azure API Management

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Release notes – November 21st, 2016

On Monday, November 21st 2016, we started deploying another regular service update. We update production service instances in batches and it will take a take a few days for the rollout to complete. Below is the list of the new features, improvements and bug fixes in this release. New features Today we announce the availability… Read more

API Management in the Azure portal public preview!

Today we are announcing a public preview of API Management with the Azure Portal. Now you can perform all operations that are available in the classic portal: Create and delete API Management instances Change scale and pricing tiers Configure custom domains and SSL Set-up VNETs NEW: Support ARM VNETs and internal-only access are available exclusively in… Read more

Release notes – November 4th, 2016

On Friday, November 4th 2016, we started deploying another regular service update. We update production service instances in batches and it will take a take a few days for the rollout to complete. Below is the list of the new features, improvements and bug fixes in this release. New features Today we are announcing the… Read more

Provide client SDKs for your APIs with APIMATIC and Azure API Management

APIMATIC has just announced integration with Azure API Management. If you aren’t familiar with APIMATIC, the company offers high-quality API SDKs generated from standard API definition formats, such as OpenAPI (formerly Swagger). With the APIMatic widget embedded into your developer portal, you can easily provide downloadable client SDKs for your APIs in API Management. SDKs… Read more

Bolster your integration practice by leveraging Azure API Management

This a brief post to let you know that the video recording of our recent presentation at the Microsoft Ignite conference is now available for on-demand viewing. Below are a few pointers to help you skip around in case you don’t have the time to watch the whole video: 00:00 – Why, what and how of API Management… Read more

Announcement: Changes to the transport-level security options on instances created prior to October 1, 2015

On December 1, 2016, we will make the following changes affecting gateway-to-backend connectivity on all API Management instances created before October 1, 2015: – SSL 3.0 will be disabled – TLS 1.1 and 1.2 will be enabled – TLS 1.0 will remain enabled The instances created after October 2015 will not be affected, since they… Read more

Swagger’s Success Gives Birth to OpenAPI

Over the past few years, an API description format called Swagger has quickly gained momentum. In order to reach it’s full potential the specification was recently donated by its owner Smartbear, to the OpenAPI Initiative group. The OAI is a newly formed group under stewardship of the Linux Foundation and includes Microsoft, Google, IBM, Paypal,… Read more

Release notes – October 12, 2016

On Wednesday, October 12, 2016, we started deploying another regular service update. We update production service instances in batches and it will take a take a few days for the rollout to complete. Below is the list of the new features, improvements and bug fixes in this release. New features SOAP pass-through (preview). You can… Read more

SOAP pass-through

Many of our customers have requested the ability to use Azure API Management to create a proxy for their SOAP APIs in the same way that we allow them to for REST/HTTP APIs, enabling developer portal integration, analytics, policies etc. This article will take you through how to set a SOAP API up and show… Read more

Breaking changes to PowerShell cmdlets

The following cmdlets were affected in the latest release of Azure PowerShell 3.0.0. You can also view these changes on GitHub. New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork The required parameters to reference a virtual network changed from SubnetName and VnetId to SubnetResourceId in the format of /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ClassicNetwork/virtualNetworks/{virtualNetworkName}/subnets/{subnetName} # Old $virtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location -SubnetName -VnetId # New $virtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location… Read more