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API Automation Workshop

Welcome and thank you for attending this course on NGINX API Automation. In this workshop we’ll focus on API Gateway and API Management using NGINX Plus and NGINX Controller.

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During this workshop, we’ll be looking at various ways to automate the API lifecycle. Including:

• Install and use the NGINX Ansible role to deploy NGINX software

• Introduction to NGINX Controller 3.x

• Deploy and secure an API using pre-shared keys

• Deploy and secure an API using JWT OAUTH2 security.

Tasks

• Task 0: Welcome to the workshop

• Task 1: Introduction to Ansible

• Task 2: Install NGINX Controller

• Task 3: A guided tour of NGINX Controller

• Task 4: Deploy an API manually

• Task 5: Deploy an API with automation

• Task 6: Wrap Up