In this demo video, solutions engineer Olaf Van Gorp explains how to use API Ops in your Akana API Platform.
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Akana 2026 introduces a new feature that allows for effective and reliable promotion of API products to their production environment using command-line functions. This means that promotion can be done in a fully automated manner. Moreover, the process can easily be integrated with existing CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins.
All tasks and corresponding responsibilities can easily be allocated to the appropriate teams. For example, the API product team will typically be responsible for the API export and import actions. The DevOps team will take control of review and approval, and push approved updates to the designated repository branch from where they can be imported.
The API Ops tool ensures a consistent import process including any modifications that are necessary from source to target environment. For example, API endpoint hostnames, Oauth domains and even policy configurations may have to be adjusted from one environment to the next.
Also, the API Ops tool can be configured to create any related objects that are not yet present in the target environment, for example policies, contracted apps or API user groups. All in all, this improved way of API product promotion enables repeatable, controlled and auditable deployments.
Once the API product configuration updates have been pushed to the appropriate remote git repository branch, they can be reviewed by the DevOps team. Once approved, the updates can be merged with any other updates into the test branch, from which the API product can be imported into the Akana test environment.
With all API product changes reliably merged into the test branch, the API product team can now import the APIs into the Akana test environment for further API testing.
In summary, the new Akana API Ops feature provides a reliable mechanism for promoting API products and their associated artifacts between environments. Through seamless integration with version control systems like Git, API Ops enables a structured delivery workflow that supports consistent and controlled deployment of API products to production.