How to deploy automatically an Azure API management?

Question

Within API management, I created an API that enables to call a serverless function app. Now I would like to deploy automatically this functionnality. Here are the possibilities I saw on internet :

• Create and configure the api management through the portal (this is not what I call an automatic deployment)
• Use Powershell command (unfortunally I am working with linux)
• ARM (Azure Resource Manager): this is not easy and I did find how to create an API with Azure function app
• Terraform: same as ARM, it is not clear for me how to create an API with Azure function app

If someone has an experience, links or ideas I would be very thankful.

Regards,

Answer 1

We are currently using Terraform for all our Azure infrastructure including API Management and I would strongly recommend it.

It is creating and updating everything we want, including api policies and has a relativity small learning curve.

You can start learning here:

https://learn.hashicorp.com/terraform?track=azure#azure

The docs for APIM are here:

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/api_management.html

Once the initial learning curve is done the rest is easy and the benefits are many.

Answer 2

Azure Powershell is 100% cross platform now, so that's an option. Here are some samples: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/powershell-samples

You can also use ARM Templates to spin it up. Configuring it is a lot harder. You can map any of these calls to the ARM Template.

Terraform - i think its still in the works. https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/1177. But I wouldnt go that way.