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Migrating API Products (with or without Dependent APIs) to Different Environments¶

WSO2 API Controller (apictl) allows you to maintain multiple environments running on the same WSO2 API Manager (WSO2 API-M) version. This allows you to import and export API Products between your environments. For example, if you have an API Product running in the development environment, you can export it and import it to the production environment. Thereby, API Products do not have to be created from scratch in different environments.

Info

Before you begin

Make sure apictl is initialized and setup, if not follow the steps in Download and Initialize the apictl.
Make sure to add an environment before you start working with the following apictl commands, because all API Products need to be imported or exported to/from a specific environment.
For more information, visit Add an Environment.

Tip

A user with Internal/devops role or admin role are allowed to import/export API Products. To create a custom user who can import/export APIs, refer Steps to Create a Custom User who can Perform API Controller Operations.

Export an API Product¶

Log in to the WSO2 API-M in the exporting environment by following steps in Login to an Environment.

Tip

If you are already logged-in and your logged-in credentials and keys are already available in the <USER_HOME>/.wso2apictl/keys.json file, you can skip this step.

Info

If you skip step 1 and if no keys exist for the environment in the <USER_HOME>/.wso2apictl/keys.json file, you will be prompt to log in to the environment when running the next command.
Run any of the following apictl commands to export an API Product as a .zip archive.
- Command
```
apictl export api-product -n <API Product-name> --rev <revision-number> -r <provider> -e <environment>  
```
```
apictl export api-product --name <API Product-name> --provider <provider> --environment <environment>  
```
```
apictl export api-product -n <API Product-name> --rev <revision-number> -r <provider> -e <environment> --preserve-status=<preserve-status> --format <export-format>  
```
  Info
  
  Flags:
  - Required :
    --name or -n : Name of the API Product to be exported
    --environment or -e : Environment from which the API Product should be exported
  - Optional :
    --rev : Revision Number of the API Product. If not provided, working copy of the API Product will be exported.
    --provider or -r : Provider of the API Product.
    --preserve-status : Preserve API Product status when exporting. Otherwise, the API Product will be exported in the CREATED status The default value is true. (Please note that this flag is only applicable to the API Products. The status of dependant APIs will not get affected).
    --latest : Export the latest revision of the API Product.
    --format : File format of exported archive (JSON or YAML). The default value is YAML.
  Example
```
apictl export api-product -n LeasingAPIProduct -e dev 
```
```
apictl export api-product -n CreditAPIProduct --rev 2 -r admin -e production --preserve-status=true --format JSON 
```
- Response
  Response Format
```
Successfully exported API Product!
Find the exported API Product at <USER_HOME>/.wso2apictl/exported/api-products/<envrionment-name>/<API Product-name>_1.0.0.zip
```
  Example Response
```
Successfully exported API Product!
Find the exported API Product at /Users/kim/.wso2apictl/exported/api-products/dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip
```

The exported ZIP file has the following structure:

<APIProductName>-version
├── api_product.yaml
├── api_product_meta.yaml
├── deployment_environments.yaml
├── Client-certificates
│   ├── Alias1.crt
│   ├── Alias2.crt
│   └── client_certificates.yaml
├── APIs
│    ├── <1stAPIName>_version
│    |── <2ndAPIName>_version
|    |── 
|    └── <NthAPIName>_version
├── Definitions
|    └── swagger.yaml
├── Docs
│   ├── Doc1
│   │   ├── document-file.pdf
│   │   └── document.yaml
│   ├── Doc2
│   │   ├── Doc2
│   │   └── document.yaml
│   ├── Doc3
│   │   ├── Doc3
│   │   └── document.yaml
│   └── Doc4
│       └── document.yaml
└── Image
     └── <imageName>.extension

The structure of an exported API Product ZIP file is explained below:

Sub Directory/File	Description
`api_product.yaml`	Contains all the basic information required for an API Product to be imported to another environment.
`api_product_meta.yaml`	The meta-information file of the source artifact (This includes the name and the version of the API Product. Since currently we do not have the version support for API Products, the version will be always 1.0.0).
`deployment_environments.yaml`	If the exported revision is deployed in one or more gateway environments, this file will contain the list of those deployed gateways. `type: deployment_environments version: v4.1.0 data: - displayOnDevportal: true deploymentEnvironment: Default - displayOnDevportal: true deploymentEnvironment: Label1 - displayOnDevportal: false deploymentEnvironment: Label2`
APIs	Dependent APIs (the APIs which the resources of the API Product belong to) will be exported into subfolders with the name format `<APIName>_version`.
Client-certificates	If the API Product is secured using MutualSSL, this folder will contain the information related to the API Product. `client_certificates.yaml`: Contains the information such as alias, certificate file name, tier name and the API Identifier (with the API Product name, version which is 1.0.0 by default and the provider name). Apart from the above `client_certificates.yaml` file, this folder contains the certificate files (.crt). These file names should be included in the `client_certificates.yaml` by mapping to the corresponding alias name. Below is an example file for a `client_certificates.yaml` file which has mapped the certificates Alias1.crt and Alias2.crt to the corresponding aliases Alias1 and Alias2 accordingly. `type: client_certificates version: v4.1.0 data: - alias: Alias1 certificate: Alias1.crt tierName: Bronze apiIdentifier: providerName: admin apiName: LeasingAPIProduct version: 1.0.0 id: 0 - alias: Alias2 certificate: Alias2.crt tierName: Gold apiIdentifier: providerName: admin apiName: LeasingAPIProduct version: 1.0.0 id: 0`
Definitions	This folder will contain the definition file associated to a particular API Product. `swagger.yaml`: It contains the API Product Swagger definition.
Docs	This folder will contain documentation attached to a particular API Product. Each document will have a seperate folder by its name. Each folder will contain a file named `document.yaml` which will contain the meta information related to a document. Example for a `document.yaml` file is shown below. `type: document version: v4.1.0 data: documentId: 7be89b14-6b7c-4e1f-8bee-f72295dd65cb name: Doc1 type: HOWTO summary: This is the sample summary sourceType: FILE fileName: document-file.pdf visibility: API_LEVEL` The above example denotes a document for a FILE named `document-file.pdf`. The corresponding file will be inside the individual folder of the Docs directory. If the you have attached an INLINE document, the `sourceType` will be changed to INLINE and the field named `fileName` will not be available. The inline content of that particular document will be included in the same individual document directory named by the document name (E.g., `Doc2`). Similarly if you have attached a MARKDOWN document, the `sourceType` will be changed to MARKDOWN and there will not be a field named `fileName`. The markdown content of that particular document will be included in the same individual document directory named by the document name (E.g., `Doc3`). If the document is just a URL, the `sourceType` will be changed to URL and a field named `sourceURL` will be there which will consist the URL of the document.
Image	Thumbnail image of the API Product.

Import an API Product¶

You can use the API Product archive exported from the previous section (or you can extract it and use the extracted folder) and import it to the WSO2 API-M instance in the target environment. When importing the API Product, you can either create the API Product as a new API Product or seamlessly update an existing API Product in the environment with it. If the API Product archive contains information about deployment environments in the deployment_environments.yaml file, once the API Product is successfully created or updated, a new revision will be created and that revision will be deployed in the mentioned gateway environments. If the deployment environments are not provided, only the working copy will be updated.

Log in to the WSO2 API-M in the importing environment by following steps in Login to an Environment.

Tip

If you are already logged-in and your logged-in credentials and keys are already available in the <USER_HOME>/.wso2apictl/keys.json file, you can skip this step.

Info

If you skip step 1 and if no keys exist for the environment in the <USER_HOME>/.wso2apictl/keys.json file, you will be prompt to log in to the environment when running the next command.
Run any of the following apictl commands to import an API Product.
- Command
```
apictl import api-product -f <path-to-API-Product-archive> -e <environment>  --import-apis
```
```
apictl import api-product -f <path-to-API-Product-archive> -e <environment> 
```
```
apictl import api-product --file <path-to-API-Product-archive> --environment <environment> 
```
```
apictl import api-product --file <path-to-API-Product-archive> --environment <environment> --update-api-product=<update_api_product> 
```
```
apictl import api-product --file <path-to-API-Product-archive> --environment <environment> --preserve-provider=<preserve_provider> --update-apis=<update_apis> --skip-cleanup=<skip-cleanup> --params <environment-params-file> --rotate-revision
```
  Info
  
  Flags:
  - Required :
    --file or -f : The file path of the API Product to import.
    --environment or -e : Environment to which the API Product should be exported.
  - Optional :
    --preserve-provider : Preserve existing provider of API Product after importing. Default value is true.
    --rotate-revision : If the maximum revision limit reached, delete the oldest revision and create a new revision.
    --skip-deployments : Skip the deployment environments specified in the project and only update the working copy of the API Product.
    --import-apis : Import depedent APIs to the environment along with the API Product. Default value is false.
    --update-api-product : Update an existing API Product or create a new API Product in the importing environment. Default value is false.
    --update-apis : Update dependent APIs of the API Product. Default value is false.
    --params : Define the API Manager environment params file.
    --skip-cleanup : Leave all temporary files created in the apictl during import process. Default value is false.
  Example
```
apictl import api-product -f dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip -e production  --import-apis=true
```
```
apictl import api-product -f dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip -e production --rotate-revision
```
```
apictl import api-product --file /home/user/api-products/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip --environment production 
```
```
apictl import api-product --file /home/user/api-products/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip --environment production --update-apis=true --rotate-revision
```
```
apictl import api-product --file /home/user/api-products/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip --environment production --update-api-product=true 
```
```
apictl import api-product -f dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip -e production --preserve-provider=false --update-apis=true  
```
```
apictl import api-product -f dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip -e production --preserve-provider=false --update-apis=true --params dev/api_product_params.yaml  
```
  Tip
  
  If your file path is /Users/kim/.wso2apictl/exported/api-products/dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip., then you need to enter dev/LeasingAPIProduct_1.0.0.zip as the value for --file or -f flag.
  
  Tip
  
  You do not need to set --import-apis flag to true if the dependent APIs are already inside the environment. So that, the tool will try only to import the API Product.
  
  Tip
  
  If you set --update-apis flag to true, it will make --update-api-product flag true as well.
  
  Tip
  
  When using --update-api-product or --update-apis flags with import api-product command, the apictl tool will check if the given API Product exists in the targeted environment. If the API Product exists, it will update the existing API Product. If not, it will create a new API Product in the imported environment.
- Response
```
Successfully imported API Product!
```
Note

Changes to the import command with the revision support for API Products
- From WSO2 API-M 4.0.0 onwards, you have to create a new revision in order to deploy both APIs and API Products in an gateway environment and only a revision can be deployed in a gateway environment.
- With the import command of the apictl, if the API Product project has specified the deployment environments, import will first update the working copy of the API Product and dependent APIs.
- If the number of revisions created for that API Product does not exceed the max revision limit of 5, a new revision of that API Product will be created and that revision will be deployed in the specified gateway environments.
- If the max revision numbers is reached, imported API Product will only update the working copy and not be deployed in the specified gateway environments.
- You can use --rotate-revision flag with the import command and if the max revision limit reached, import operation will delete the earliest revision for that API Product and create a new revision. This new revision will be deployed in the specified gateway environments.
- If dependent APIs also imported with the Product, a revision for the APIs will be created as well and they will be deployed in the parent API Product's deployment environments.
Note

Preserving Provider while Importing API Product

The --preserve-provider flag is used to decide whether to keep the actual provider as the provider of the API Product and the depedent APIs or change the provider to the user who is importing the API Product to a different environment.

As an example, If --preserve-provider is set to true, when importing an API Product created by user-1 in environment-1 will be preserved with user-1 as the provider when and after importing that API Product to environment-2 by user-2. If --preserve-provider is set to false, when importing that API Product created by user-1 to the environment-2, the provider will be changed (not preserved) to user-2 who is importing the API Product. (Same goes with dependent APIs as well)

Tip

You must add the flag --preserve-provider to the apictl command and set its value to false if the API Product is imported to a different domain than its exported one. So it sets the provider of the imported API Product to the user who is issuing the apictl command.

Note

Configuring Environment Specific Parameters

When the importing and exporting environments are different, before importing the API Product, you may need to update the exported API Product with details relevant to the importing environment. For example, the subscription policies, MutualSSL certificates and deployment environments of an API Product might differ between the dev and production environments. Furthermore, when considering the dependent APIs of an API product, the production and sandbox URLs, the timeout configurations, the backend certificates of your endpoints might differ between environments as well. To allow easily configuring environment-specific details, by default apictl supports an additional parameter file. For more information on using an environment parameter file for API Products, see Defining the params file for an API Product.

Add dynamic data to environment configs

The above parameter file supports detecting environment variables during the API Product import process. For more information on using dynamic data, see Add dynamic data to environment configs.

Info

Tiers are provider-specific. If an exported tier is not already available in the importing environment, that tier is not added to the new environment.

Tip

Troubleshooting

After importing, if the API Products or the dependent APIs are not visible in the WSO2 API-M Publisher UI, do the following to re-index the artifacts in the registry.

Shut down the WSO2 API-M 4.1.0, backup and delete the <API-M_4.1.0_HOME>/solr directory.
Rename the <lastAccessTimeLocation> element in the <API-M_4.1.0_HOME>/repository/conf/registry.xml file. If you use a distributed WSO2 API-M setup, change the file in the API Publisher node. For example, change the /_system/local/repository/components/org.wso2.carbon.registry/indexing/lastaccesstime registry path to /_system/local/repository/components/org.wso2.carbon.registry/indexing/lastaccesstime_1
Restart WSO2 API-M 4.1.0 server.

Import/Export API Products in tenanted environments¶

The environments that you create will be common to the admin and the tenants. Therefore, you do not need to create environments again when exporting and importing API Products between tenanted environments.

Warning

When exporting and importing an API Product across tenanted environments, the --preserve-provider flag value should be set to false as the original provider username in the exporting environment does not exist in the importing environment.

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