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Hi Community,

We have different environments in our scope (UAT & Production)

We develop our API's in UAT and now we need to export them to another APIC instance (Production)

How can I achieve this? there is a simple way to export & import? using the YAML directly?

Regards.

Hi,

If you use the Develop (drafts) section of API Manager for UAT to manage your APIs and Products then you can download the yaml for the APIs and Products from there:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.5.x_lts?topic=products-downloading-draft-product

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.5.x_lts?topic=definitions-downloading-api-definition

Then in Production you can import the APIs and Products into the Develop (drafts) section of the Production API Manager and publish the Products there:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.5.x_lts?topic=products-importing-draft-product

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.5.x_lts?topic=cad-adding-rest-api-by-importing-openapi-definition-file

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.5.x_lts?topic=products-publishing-draft-product

However if you do not use the API Manager Develop (drafts) section then you can manage the whole process programmatically using the Provider-API REST-API delivered with APIC v10:

https://apic-api.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/v10/#/documentation/introduction

With the Provider-API you can list Products published per Catalog in UAT, download the yaml for the APIs and Products published to the Catalogs in UAT and then re-publish the APIs and Products to Catalogs in Production.

Please see my blogs on getting started with the Provider-API and how the Product/API Lifecycle can be managed with the Provider-API:

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/integration/blogs/nick-cawood/2023/02/22/some-advice-about-using-the-api-connect-v10-apic-t?CommunityKey=2106cca0-a9f9-45c6-9b28-01a28f4ce947

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/integration/blogs/nick-cawood/2023/02/23/api-connect-v10-provider-api-calls-api-lifecycle-c?CommunityKey=2106cca0-a9f9-45c6-9b28-01a28f4ce947 

Hi Community,

We have different environments in our scope (UAT & Production)

We develop our API's in UAT and now we need to export them to another APIC instance (Production)

How can I achieve this? there is a simple way to export & import? using the YAML directly?

Regards.