Working with Apps

An App is the publish target for an application. An App references an API Connect collective. When you publish an application by using the API Designer or the CLI apic publish command, the application is deployed to the collective referenced by the App.

Important:
  • IBM® API Connect collectives are deprecated in IBM API Connect Version 5.0.7 in favor of container runtimes. For more information and background, see Open, scalable, flexible runtime management of APIs through API Connect enabled containers. For information on setting up and migrating to containers, see Installing a containerized runtime environment.
  • Existing customers can continue to use their collectives with IBM API Connect Version 5.0.7, and if wanted can expand their collective deployments to new servers. API Connect collectives are supported for existing customers until the end of support of IBM API Connect Version 5.0 (see Software lifecycle page for IBM API Connect Version 5.0). Until then, users of API Connect collectives are encouraged to migrate to container runtimes to take advantage of their agility and scalability.
  • New customers should not install API Connect collectives because this feature is no longer supported for new users.

You create an App from the dashboard in the API Manager user interface. You can monitor the collective referenced by your App by using the Liberty Admin Center.

For details on working with Apps, see the following subtopics: