Self-host Your Azure API Center Portal

Overview

• What is Azure API Center?
• What is the Azure API Center Portal?
• Prerequisites
• Quick Start
  • Automated deployment using azd
  • Running the portal locally
  • Manual deployment to Azure Static Web Apps
• Contributing
• Bugs & Issues & Feedback
• Code of Conduct
• Trademark Notice
• Telemetry
• License

What is the Azure API Center portal?

Azure API Center is a service that helps you develop and maintain a structured inventory of your organization’s APIs. With API Center, you can track all of your APIs in a centralized location, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location. API Center enables API discovery, reuse, and governance empowering API Platform Teams.

Azure API Center Portal

API Center portal is a website that empowers developers and stakeholders to seamlessly discover and engage with APIs. Our reference implementation of the API Center portal enables API platform teams to provide a web-based API discovery and consumption experience to API consumers.

The API Center portal reference implementation provides:

• A framework for publishing and maintaining a customer-managed API portal.
• A portal platform that customers can modify or extend to meet their needs.
• Flexibility to host on different infrastructures, including deployment to Azure Static Web Apps or Azure App Service.

Limitations

For free SKU API Center instances, a maximum of 5 APIs will be displayed in the API Center portal regardless of how many APIs are in the API Center.

For standard SKU, there is no limit and all APIs will be displayed.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

1. ✅ You have installed the latest version of Node.js and npm.
2. ✅ Vite package.

Quick Start

You have two options to deploy this self-hosted API Center Portal:

• Automated deployment – Use the Azure developer CLI (azd) for one-step deployment of the portal app. This option is recommended for a streamlined deployment process.
• Manual deployment – Follow step-by-step guidance to deploy the Azure Functions app and configure the event subscription. This option is recommended if you prefer to deploy and manage the resources manually.

Automated deployment using azd

NOTE: You will need the additional prerequisites for this option

• ✅ Azure Developer CLI (azd)
• ✅ Azure CLI
• ✅ GitHub CLI

1. Fork this repository to your GitHub account and clone it.

   git clone https://github.com/<YOUR_GITHUB_ALIAS>/APICenter-Portal-Starter.git

2. Log in with the following command. Then, you will be able to use the azd cli to quickly provision and deploy the application.

   # Authenticate with Azure Developer CLI
   azd auth login
   
   # Authenticate with Azure CLI
   az login

3. Run azd up to provision all the resources to Azure and deploy the code to those resources.

   azd up

   Enter an environment name and select your desired subscription and location. Then, you will be asked to enter a few more values:

   1. Choose whether to use an existing API Center instance or not (apiCenterExisted).
   2. Pass the values for apiCenterName, apiCenterRegion and apiCenterResourceGroupName, if you choose to use the existing API center resource (apiCenterExisted value to true).
   3. Leave them blank, if you choose to create a new API center resource (apiCenterExisted value to false).
   4. Pass staticAppLocation value for the Azure Static Web Apps instance. Wait a moment for the resource deployment to complete.

   There are two scenarios:

   1. Portal with new API Center – You need to give False to apiCenterExisted and leave apiCenterName, apiCenterRegion and apiCenterResourceGroupName blank.
   2. Portal with existing API Center – You need to give True to apiCenterExisted and pass values to apiCenterName, apiCenterRegion and apiCenterResourceGroupName.

4. If you want to integrate the CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, you can use the following command to create a GitHub repository and push the code to the repository. First of all, log in to GitHub.

   # Authenticate with GitHub CLI
   gh auth login

5. Run the following commands to update your GitHub repository variables.

   NOTE: Make sure that you've forked this repository to your GitHub account before running the following commands.

   # Bash
   AZURE_CLIENT_ID=$(./infra/scripts/get-azdvariable.sh --key AZURE_CLIENT_ID)
   azd pipeline config --principal-id $AZURE_CLIENT_ID
   
   # PowerShell
   $AZURE_CLIENT_ID = $(./infra/scripts/Get-AzdVariable.ps1 -Key AZURE_CLIENT_ID)
   azd pipeline config --principal-id $AZURE_CLIENT_ID

6. Now, you're good to go! Push the code to the GitHub repository or manually run the GitHub Actions workflow to get your portal deployed.

Configure scoping filters

By default, the portal displays all APIs from your API Center instance. You can configure your portal instance to filter out certain APIs by setting the scopingFilter property in the public/config.example file using OData query syntax. For example:

{
  "dataApiHostName": "<service name>.data.<region>.azure-apicenter.ms/workspaces/default",
  "title": "API portal",
  "authentication": {
      "clientId": "<client ID>",
      "tenantId": "<tenant ID>",
      "scopes": ["https://azure-apicenter.net/user_impersonation"],
      "authority": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/"
  },
  "scopingFilter": "customProperties/compliant eq true"
}

For a full list of filterable properties, refer to the dataplane API resource model.

Running the portal locally

NOTE: You will need the additional prerequisites for this option

• ✅ Configured app registration in your Microsoft Entra ID tenant with the right API permission scope and Redirect URI.
• ✅ Portal sign-in enabled with the right role assignment

Follow these steps to get your development environment set up:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Azure/APICenter-Portal-Starter.git

2. Switch to main branch:

   git checkout main

3. Copy or rename the public/config.example file to the public/config.json.

4. Configure the public/config.json file to point to your Azure API Center service. Here’s an example configuration:

   {
     "dataApiHostName": "<service name>.data.<region>.azure-apicenter.ms/workspaces/default",
     "title": "API portal",
     "authentication": {
         "clientId": "<client ID>",
         "tenantId": "<tenant ID>",
         "scopes": ["https://azure-apicenter.net/user_impersonation"],
         "authority": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/"
     }
   }

5. Install the required packages.

   npm install

6. Start the development server - This command will start the portal in development mode running locally:

   npm start

Manual deployment to Azure Static Web Apps

Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a code repository. This tutorial uses GitHub Actions to deploy to Azure Static Web Apps.

1. Create a new Static Web App.
2. Select GitHub as the Source.
3. Select the GitHub organization, repository, and branch containing the API Center portal. Note: You must fork the API Center portal repository to your own personal account or organization and select this repository.
4. Select React as the Build Presets.
5. Enter / as the App location.
6. Enter dist as the Output location.
7. Click Create. A GitHub workflow file will be committed to the repository selected in Step #3, and deployment to your Static Web App with GitHub Actions will begin. It may take up to five minutes to see your changes published.

To view your API Center portal running on Static Web Apps, click View app in browser from the Overview tab in the Static Web App resource you created in Azure portal.

Contributing

🚀 See the contribution guidelines for ideas and guidance on how to improve the template. Thank you! 🚀

Bugs & Issues & Feedback

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We welcome and appreciate community contributions.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

Trademark Notice

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Telemetry

Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software and send it to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may turn off the telemetry as described in the repository. There are also some features in the software that may enable you and Microsoft to collect data from users of your applications. If you use these features, you must comply with applicable law, including providing appropriate notices to users of your applications together with a copy of Microsoft’s privacy statement. Our privacy statement is located at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824704. You can learn more about data collection and use in the help documentation and our privacy statement. Your use of the software operates as your consent to these practices.

License

MIT