Future-proof your API management: transitioning from Apigee Edge to X

In today’s digital landscape, businesses are continuously striving to modernize their API infrastructure for better performance, security, and scalability. If your company is using Apigee Edge and considering migrating to Apigee X, this guide will provide a structured approach to ensure a smooth transition.

Why Choose AppyThings for Your Migration?

At AppyThings, we specialize in API management and Cloud Integration. With years of experience handling complex integration domains, we have successfully transitioned multiple enterprises from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. We have learnt from experience and our deep understanding of both platforms, combined with industry best practices allows us to ensure a seamless migration with minimal disruptions. Our expertise includes:

Proven Migration Strategies: We have developed efficient methodologies to streamline the migration process.

End-to-End Support: From assessment to deployment, we provide comprehensive guidance.

Optimized Performance: We provide best practices to architect GCP network services and leverage Apigee X’s full potential.

Security-First Approach: Ensuring compliance and robust security throughout the transition.

With our expert team, you can confidently move to Apigee X while maintaining API stability and business continuity.

What to do before the migration?

The great news is that you have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the new environment. Google provides a three-month trial period to explore the features and interface of Apigee X. We can also guide you through architecting the underlying infrastructure and help design and implement your industry-specific APIs on Apigee X.

Another important part of the preparation is to assess the Edge platform and identify the nuances before migrating to X. Training the teams and acquiring the necessary knowledge on the new components, are key to business continuity.

How we guide you step-by-step through your migration process

Phase 1: Migration Assessment

The objective of the first phase is to understand your current Apigee Edge setup and your preferences for X. What should your future platform look like? What are the complexities of the API proxies? We start by making an inventory of existing components (API proxies, shared flows, …) and dependency mapping. After this, we conduct a compatibility check to verify which Edge features are unsupported in Apigee X and do a thorough network and security review.

As AppyThings, we highly recommend you produce an Inventory report and an Assessment document at the end of this phase.

Phase 2: Planning & Design

In this phase you define migration strategy, timelines, and fallback plans.

At AppyThings, we bring extensive experience in Apigee Edge to Apigee X migrations. Our approach begins with a comprehensive migration strategy, where we help businesses choose between a big-bang migration, or a canary approach, gradually shifting a percentage of traffic to Apigee X. To ensure efficiency, we allocate the right resources including Cloud Integration Engineers, Network Administrators and QA teams to manage different aspects of the migration. A well-defined timeline is critical, with clear milestones for testing, cutover and post-migration validation.

Additionally, we prioritize risk management, developing a robust rollback plan to revert to Apigee Edge if any critical issues arise.

Our deliverable in this phase includes a detailed migration strategy and roadmap, along with a comprehensive communication plan to keep stakeholders informed at every stage.

Phase 3: Environment Setup

Next, we prepare to provision Apigee X and the underlying Google Cloud infrastructure.

We focus on northbound and southbound networking, setting up VPC peering or Private Service Connect to establish secure backend communication. Security is a top priority, and we carefully map existing Apigee Edge roles to Google Cloud IAM roles, ensuring proper access control. or custom uploads, to maintain encrypted communication.

We leverage Terraform & Google’s best practices to deliver a fully functional Apigee X organization and a detailed network architecture diagram, ensuring a robust and well-documented infrastructure.

Phase 4: Component Migration

In this phase, we leverage our migration tool to migrate API proxies, shared flows, apps, products etc. All proxies & shared flows migrated from Apigee Edge using our migration tool, adjust the source code to handle Google Cloud dependencies and discrepancies before importing them into Apigee X. Environment configurations including Target Servers, References & KVMs, are also migrated with the tool. To ensure smooth operation, we set up Cloud Monitoring and alerts for API traffic, errors, and latency.

We deliver fully migrated and validated API proxies, configurations, and developer assets.

Phase 5: Testing & Validation

To ensure migrated APIs function correctly in Apigee X, we create a temporary test DNS for validation. Functional testing verifies API endpoints, policies like OAuth and quotas, and error handling. Security testing includes penetration testing, IAM role validation, and TLS certificate checks. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) involves business users to validate end-to-end workflows.

The migration is finalized with test reports and stakeholder sign-off.

Phase 6: Cutover & Go-Live

To complete the migration, we switch traffic to Apigee X for each environment. DNS records are updated to point to Apigee X endpoints, and traffic is gradually redirected using a big bang or canary approach until it reaches 100%.

Once the cutover is successful for all environments, Apigee Edge instances are decommissioned. The process concludes with a full traffic transition and a post-migration health report and knowledge transfers.

Phase 7: Post-Migration Optimization

After the migration we clean up the last details and tackle any remaining issues. We also make sure that your teams are sufficiently trained on Apigee X. This way, you’re in safe hands after the migration!

We conduct a roadmap development session to identify tasks to optimize and standardize your API landscape on Apigee X.

AppyThings, your number one migration partner

Why? Because we excel at it! With our comprehensive planning, in-depth understanding of both platforms, and expertise in integration, combined with our proprietary migration tool, we guarantee a seamless transition from Edge to X.