Creating a IBM Cloud consumer organization

If you are using an API Manager provider organization that is associated with an IBM® Cloud organization, you can create an API Manager consumer organization that is associated with an IBM Cloud organization that you want to make your APIs visible to. The members of the IBM Cloud organization can then use your APIs.

About this task

You create an IBM Cloud consumer organization in API Manager by sending an invitation email to a chosen IBM Cloud user who is a member of the IBM Cloud organization with which you want to share APIs. If the IBM Cloud user is a member of more than one IBM Cloud organization, they can choose which organization they want to associate with API Manager. When the user confirms the chosen organization, an association between the organization in IBM Cloud and the corresponding consumer organization in API Manager is established automatically, and any Products that you publish to that consumer organization in API Manager become visible as Custom APIs in the Catalog of the consuming IBM Cloud organization.

For information on working with IBM API Connect in IBM Cloud, see Getting started with API Connect in the IBM Cloud documentation.

Procedure

  1. If you have not previously pinned the UI navigation pane then click the Navigate to icon The Navigate to icon.
    The API Manager UI navigation pane opens. To pin the UI navigation pane, click the Pin menu icon The Pin menu icon..
  2. Select the Catalog for which you want to create the IBM Cloud consumer organization.
  3. In the Developers page, click + IBM Cloud Organization.
  4. In the IBM Cloud user email address field, enter the email address of the IBM Cloud user who is a member of the IBM Cloud organization that you want to invite to use your APIs.
  5. Click Invite to send an email invitation to the IBM Cloud user.
    Note: No organization is created in the API Manager user interface until the IBM Cloud user has confirmed the association of the organization in IBM Cloud with the corresponding consumer organization in API Manager, as directed in the invitation email. When the association is established, the organization is displayed in the list of organizations, and a IBM Cloud community tag is added automatically.

Results

Products that are published to the IBM Cloud consumer organization in API Manager are visible in the Custom APIs section of the IBM Cloud Catalog for the associated organization, where they can be used by IBM Cloud applications.