@croz/plugin-ibm-apic-backend

apic-public

Welcome to the apic-public backend plugin!

This plugin was created through the Backstage CLI

Getting started

Your plugin has been added to the example app in this repository, meaning you'll be able to access it by running yarn start in the root directory, and then navigating to /apic-public.

You can also serve the plugin in isolation by running yarn start in the plugin directory. This method of serving the plugin provides quicker iteration speed and a faster startup and hot reloads. It is only meant for local development, and the setup for it can be found inside the /dev directory.

Standalone run

For standalone run, the standalone router is exposed (located at src\service\standaloneRouter.ts) with a method for synchronization that you can access by navigating to /apic-public-standalone/syncApic.

Exposed method triggers sync with IBM API Connect to fetch all entities related to the defined provider. The configuration for the provider is provided as environment variables located inside .env file.

Installation instructions

Install the plugin into backstage:

cd packages/backend
yarn add @croz/plugin-ibm-apic-backend
yarn install

Add proxy config to the app-config.yaml file:

catalog:
  providers:
    ibmApic:
      default:
        baseUrl: ${IBM_APIC_API_URL}
        # provider/your-realm
        realm: ${IBM_APIC_REALM}
        clientId: ${IBM_APIC_CLIENT_ID}
        clientSecret: ${IBM_APIC_CLIENT_SECRET}
        username: ${IBM_APIC_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USERNAME}
        password: ${IBM_APIC_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD}

Register plugin inside the catalog. The catalog is located at packages/backend/src/plugins/catalog.ts

...
import {APICEntityProcessor, APICEntityProvider} from "@croz/plugin-ibm-apic-backend";
...


...
    const builder = CatalogBuilder.create(env);
    builder.addProcessor(new ScaffolderEntitiesProcessor());
    
    const cacheService = env.cache.getClient();

    const apicEntityProviders = APICEntityProvider.fromConfig(env.config, {
        id: 'default',
        logger: env.logger,
        cache: cacheService,
        database: env.database,
        schedule: env.scheduler.createScheduledTaskRunner({
             frequency: {minutes: 30},
             timeout: {minutes: 1},
             initialDelay: {seconds: 15}
        }),
    });
    builder.addEntityProvider(
        apicEntityProviders,
    );
    
    const entityProcessor = new APICEntityProcessor(env.config, env.logger, cacheService)
    builder.addProcessor(entityProcessor)
...

Catalog is refreshed every 30 minutes.