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API Management documentation

Learn how to use API Management to publish APIs to external, partner, and employee developers securely and at scale. Create and manage modern API gateways for existing back-end services hosted anywhere.

About API Management

Overview

  • What is API Management?
  • Service tiers and features

Concept

  • Gateway capabilities
  • Hybrid and multicloud management

Get started

Quickstart

  • Create instance - Azure CLI
  • Create instance - portal

Tutorial

  • Import and publish your first API
  • Transform and protect your API

How-To Guide

  • Import an OpenAPI specification
  • Import an Azure Function app as an API

Common tasks

How-To Guide

  • Set and edit API policies
  • Configure a custom domain name
  • Integrate with Application Insights
  • Deploy to VNet - external mode
  • Deploy to VNet - internal mode
  • Configure with Application Gateway
  • Set up inbound private endpoint
  • Customize the developer portal

Concept

  • API authentication and authorization
  • API Management policies
  • Networking options

Reference

  • API Management policy reference
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