IBM API Connect overview and lifecycle

IBM API Connect is an integrated offering, where all of the steps in the API lifecycle, and the actions that surround it, are performed within the offering.

The steps of the API lifecycle include creating, running, managing, and securing APIs. With API Connect, you can perform all of the life cycle steps in a single integrated offering, removing the requirement to use multiple API management offerings to obtain the same capability.

The IBM API Connect lifecycle

From an on-premises cloud, you can create, promote, use, and track APIs. An on-premises cloud is composed of various appliances, where each appliance is a server of a specific type. The collection of servers defines your cloud and determines how to distribute the work of managing, analyzing, routing, and storing data.