Take Apigee X for a spin

Apigee X is the latest product version of Google's Apigee API Management platform. Adding a 4 product version next to Apigee Edge (SAAS), Apigee for Private Cloud and Apigee Hybrid. Apigee X is best described as a version of Apigee Hybrid that is (almost) fully managed by Google.

There is a free evaluation version available. One only needs a (free) Google Cloud account. Took it for a spin on a snowy Sunday afternoon.

The suggested way to get started with Apigee X is the Apigee Evaluation Setup. But if you want to experiment with API proxies that are publicly available, better use the apigee-ngsaas-trial-install.sh script.

Create a Google Cloud project and assign the Apigee Organization Admin role to yourself.

Then simply start the script. One attention point when using the Cloud Shell terminal: the script takes a long time to execute, causing your shell to close. I solved this by restarting the script after the organization was provisioned. Then opening the Apigee console.

Configured an API proxy "httpbin" pointing to http://httpbin.org/ for my project (apigee-x-2021 with LB IP 34.117.205.203).. And invoke the API proxy:

curl -k -v https://apigee-x-2021-eval.apigee.net/httpbin/uuid \

        --resolve "apigee-x-2021-eval.apigee.net:443:34.117.205.203"

 

There are limited costs related to the use of this Apigee X eval. A number of objects are created by the script on GCP to expose the API proxies publicly. Estimated cost for these components is €0,07/hour. The Apigee X trial itself is of course free.

 

• 2 VM instance (apigee-envoy-xxxxx)
• Instance group (apigee-envoy-europe-west1)
• Instance template (apigee-envoy-europe-west1)
• Forwarding rule (apigee-envoy-https-lb-rule)
• Load balancer (apigee-envoy-proxy-map)
• With backend (apigee-envoy-backend)
• Target proxy (apigee-envoy-https-proxy)
• SSL cert (apigee-ssl-cert)
• Static IP address (lb-ipv4-vip-1)