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apigee-deploy-maven-plugin (Apigee X or Apigee hybrid)

apigee-edge-maven-plugin is a build and deploy utility for building and deploying the Apigee ApiProxy's/Application bundles into Apigee Platform. The code is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.

NOTE: Log4J libraries are upgraded to v2.17.1 in v2.2.2

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TL;DR

The samples folder provides a Readme with Getting Started steps and commands to hit the ground quickly.

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Detailed documentation on the use of plugin

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Contents

• Prerequisites
• Getting-Started
• Building API bundles
• Building Shared Flow bundles
• Steps to set it up
• Step 1: Create a maven compatible file structure
• Step 2: Create and configure pom files
• Step 3: Create and configure config.json
• Samples
• parent-pom/pom.xml Sample
• pom.xml Sample
• Config.json Sample
• Commands
• To configure a proxy

Prerequisites

You will need the following to run the samples: - Apigee IAM permissions. See docs for more details on Apigee roles. - Java SDK >= 8 - Maven 3.x

Plugin Usage

NOTE

• If you want to use this plugin for Apigee Edge SaaS/Private Cloud OPDK, please refer to this link. You should be using the version 1.x

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.apigee.build-tools.enterprise4g</groupId>
  <artifactId>apigee-edge-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.x</version>
</dependency>

• For Apigee X or Apigee hybrid, the version of the plugin is 2.x

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.apigee.build-tools.enterprise4g</groupId>
  <artifactId>apigee-edge-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.x</version>
</dependency>

Getting Started

Often the most difficult and confusing aspect of application development is figuring out how to build a common framework for creating new applications. Over time, development teams have started using tools like Maven, Ant and Ivy to automate some of these functions. This plugin uses the Maven plugin for deploying bundles to the Apigee platform.

Why this deployment plugin is developed?

• Helps in offline development.
• Easy integrations with source control like git.
• The Maven build strategy is a good strategy if your current enterprise build and deploy strategies already use Maven or Maven compatible tools.
• Configuration management across organizations/environments. (Realtime Enterprise Apigee architecture consists of multiple organizations/environments and configurations which varies according to these. An example scenario for this use would be the Maven configuration file to replace the number of requests it takes to trip a spike arrest policy. In your non-production environment you may want this policy to take effect when 10 requests a minute is surpassed, in production you may want this policy to trip when 10000 requests a minute is surpassed.)

Building API bundles

What is an Apigee bundle?

Apigee bundles can be described as a zipped file system composed of configuration, scripts and code. The file system when extracted is composed of the following structure.

 |-apiproxy/
   |-proxies
   |-resources
   |-policies
   |-targets

Create a new API Proxy

Instructions for creating a new API proxy can be found at this link

https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/develop/ui-create-proxy

Export your API

Instructions for exporting your API via an API can be found at this link

https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/fundamentals/download-api-proxies#download

To export you API via Apigee select the organization that contains the proxy you wish to export. From the navigation bar on the top, under APIs select the API Proxies. Select the proxy, on the far left of the screen, under the drop down menu titled Project, select Download Current Revision.

Steps to set it up

Follow below steps to set up your local development environment

1. Create the folder structure as described in the section
2. Create and configure pom files - Parent pom and the child pom for the proxy
3. Create and configure config.json - if there are environment specific configurations (This is an optional step)

And you are ready for deploy to Apigee using the plugin

Step 1 Create a Maven compatible file structure

Below is the recommended structure for the project. However only the folder structure below the folder gateway is mandatory

  |-name-of-root (typically company name)
    |-archive/
      |-docs
      |-src
    |-binaries/
    |-build-artifacts/
    |-docs/
      |-customer
      |-reference
      |-solution
    |-src/
      |-analytics
      |-gateway/ ***
        |-parent-pom
        |-test-app/
          |-apiproxy/
            |-proxies
            |-resources/
              |-py
            |-policies
            |-targets
      |-java
      |-portal
    |-test

Decompress API Bundle

The API bundle will come zipped, use the unarchiving utility of your choice to unzip the file.

Once unzipped you will have a folder named apiproxy, this folder contains all of the configuration for your proxy and the folder structure needed for re-importing of the configuration.

The composition of the folder can be described as below.

File/Folder	Purpose
{ApiName}.xml	A file that contains descriptors for the content
policies/	A folder that contains all policy xml files
proxies/	A folder that contains information about your proxy configurations (inbound)
targets/	A folder that contains information about target configurations (outbound)
resources	A folder that contains any scripts (java, jsc, py, node)

Note: when creating scripts, place your script/jar files in the proper folders based on the script type (e.g. JavaScript in jsc, node.js in node, java in java).

Step 2 Create and configure pom files

In a standard configuration typically we have parent-pom (pom.xml inside the parent-pom directory) and a child pom (pom file at the peer level as folder apiproxy).

The contents of the parent pom folder will contain a single pom.xml file. This file typically contains most of the configuration of Maven and the plugin, it also contains credentials for the Apigee platform.

In case of manual creation of Maven compatible file structure, "parent-pom" directory should be in peer level with other application folders. Here we configure information that is common across multiple apiproxys. Eg: Profile configurations which has the org/env info etc.

parent-pom-pom-xml Sample

Refer parent-pom template parent-pom

• groupId element's content should be set to client's company name. Here you see it as apigee.
• artifactId element's content be left as parent-pom.

Child-pom: Here we configure all the details specific to the particular proxy.

pom-xml Sample

Refer child-pom template child-pom.

• groupId element's content should match that of the same element in the parent pom.xml.
• artifactId element's content should be a unique name, typically set to the name of the API.
• name element's content should match the artifactId above (typically set to the name of the API).
• side-note groupId and artifactId, combined, define the artifact living quarters within a repository.

Step 3 Create and configure config-json

The config.json contains rules to perform build time configuration update. This JSON file's root object is "configurations" and is an array of proxy configurations scoped to an environment.

Note: it is important that the name of the configurations match the name of the profiles in the parent-pom.

For instance in the example below you have two configurations one for the test profile and one for the production profile. This example also shows how you can use xpath to replace environment specific settings.

Config-json Sample

Refer config.json template config.json

Commands for deploying the proxy using maven

To deploy the proxy

/src/gateway/proxy-dir
(run the command from the directory same as child pom)

mvn apigee-enterprise:deploy -P<profile> -Dfile={file}

The default configuration is "override" and in this option, the plugin polls to check if the deployment is complete across all pods. If you do not want the plugin to poll, please pass -Dapigee.options=async. This is available in v2.0.2 and later

mvn apigee-enterprise:deploy -P<profile> -Dfile={file} -Dapigee.options=async

For example:

mvn apigee-enterprise:deploy -P prod -Dfile={file}

You can also pass the bearer token to deploy (available from v2.0.1 and later)

mvn clean install -P{profile} -Dbearer=${bearer} -Dapigee.options={option}

For example using gcloud

mvn clean install -P{profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -Dapigee.options={option}

To deploy a proxy that makes requires Apigee to generate the GoogleAccessToken or GoogleIDToken (v2.1.2 or later)

NOTE: This option is available in Apigee X and Apigee hybrid 1.6+

If the API Proxy makes a callout to a Google API, Apigee now supports generating the access token or ID Token by just passing the service account email to the deployment API. For more info on the policy and HTTPTargetConnection config, check out Authentication.

mvn clean install -P{profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -DgoogleTokenEmail={ACCOUNT_ID}@{PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com

For more info check out Using Google authentication using Apigee

NOTE: Please make sure that you have the following config in your Maven profile

<apigee.googletoken.email>${googleTokenEmail}</apigee.googletoken.email>

To delete the proxy or sharedflow (v2.0.3 or later)

To delete the entire proxy or sharedflow, pass the options as clean

mvn clean install -P{profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -Dapigee.options=clean

To just import the proxy or sharedflow without activating (v2.4.1 or later)

To just import the proxy or sharedflow without activating, pass the options as inactive

mvn clean install -P{profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -Dapigee.options=inactive

To promote the proxy or sharedflow (v2.4.0 or later)

To promote an existing revision deployed to an Apigee org you can use the apigee-enterprise:promote goal

The promote goal allows the following options:

• To deploy the latest revision to a target environment:

mvn apigee-enterprise:promote -P${profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token)

For example let's say the latest revision number of a proxy is 5 (whether deployed or not), the above command will deploy that revision to the environment configured in the Maven profile

• To deploy a specific revision to Target env:

mvn apigee-enterprise:promote -P${profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -Dapigee.promote.revision=${REV}

For example, let's say you want a specific revision (Revision 3) to be deployed to an environment, you just need to pass -Dapigee.promote.revision=3. The plugin will deploy that revision to the environment configured in the Maven profile

• To deploy a revision from a source env to a Target env:

mvn apigee-enterprise:promote -P${PROFILE} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -Dapigee.promote.sourceEnv=${SOURCE_ENV}

For example, lets say Revision 6 is deployed to dev environment and you want to promote that revision to qa environment. You can just pass -Dapigee.promote.sourceEnv=dev. The plugin will find the deployed revision from the source environment passed and deploy that revision to the environment configured in the Maven profile

To import a proxy or a sharedflow to an Apigee space (v2.5.2 or later)

mvn clean install -P{profile} -Dbearer=$(gcloud auth print-access-token) -Dapigee.space=${space}

Advanced Configuration Options

Note 1

The following entries in some XML file elements could be changed to match the customer's environment: * "groupId" * "id" (for each profile sections) * "apigee.profile" * "apigee.env" * "apigee.hosturl" * "apigee.org"

1. The contents of "apigee.profile", "apigee.env", and "id" elements should match the profile the customer wants to use and is matched with environment name.
2. The value of the "apigee.hosturl" element should match the value in the example if the customer is an enterprise cloud user.
   • If the custome