Azure API Center Fundamentals: Govern and Discover Enterprise APIs

As organizations build and deploy more APIs, tracking, securing, and governing them across different teams becomes a major challenge. Azure API Center solves this by providing a unified, secure inventory to catalog and discover all your APIs in one place. In this comprehensive text-based course, you will learn how to set up and manage an enterprise-grade API repository, enabling seamless discovery and consistent compliance across your technical landscape. You will learn to: 1. Understand foundational API governance principles and Azure API Center architecture. 2. Configure a centralized API inventory to register, track, and organize your services. 3. Define custom metadata schemas to enforce organizational standards and compliance. 4. Enable efficient API discovery for developers to prevent duplication and speed up integration. 5. Integrate API registration workflows with modern CI/CD pipelines for automated tracking. 6. Analyze and monitor the security posture of your registered API endpoints. This course begins with essential terminology and core architectural concepts before moving into practical configuration steps, metadata design, and integration strategies. You will reinforce your knowledge through detailed written explanations, configuration examples, and structured conceptual exercises. This course is designed for cloud administrators, developers, and IT architects who are new to API governance, with no prior experience with Azure API Center required. Start building your centralized API catalog today.