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Delivery & Operations

Deliver the selected implementation style with appropriate engineering, testing, security, automation, and operational practices.

A reusable capability needs reliable delivery and operations regardless of whether it becomes an API, event stream, file exchange, data product, or direct integration.

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Selected station: Delivery & Operations

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Outcomes

  • A delivered capability aligned with the validated interface contract
  • Automated testing, deployment, and environment controls
  • Security, operations, and quality practices appropriate to the chosen pattern
  • Traceable delivery and release controls

Journey criteria

Entry criteria

  • The chosen architecture, platform, and implementation style have been validated with the relevant architecture, security, and platform stakeholders.
  • The selected interface provides an appropriate abstraction for consumers.
  • The interface design and exposed capabilities trace back to business value and consumer needs.
  • The interface design follows agreed design standards and conventions.

Exit criteria

  • The chosen architecture, platform, and implementation style have been validated with the relevant architecture, security, and platform stakeholders.
  • The selected interface provides an appropriate abstraction for consumers.
  • The interface design and exposed capabilities trace back to business value and consumer needs.
  • The interface design follows agreed design standards and conventions.

This is what success looks like

Apply delivery, testing, CI/CD, operations, and security guidance to the chosen implementation style.

  1. Use development best practices to implement the validated interface contract with established frameworks, libraries, and team standards.
  2. Build the implementation from the validated interface contract using established frameworks, libraries, and team standards.
  3. Use testing guidance to verify functionality, data quality, compatibility, security, performance, resilience, and recovery expectations.
  4. Use CI/CD guidance to automate build, test, deployment, configuration, and traceability.
  5. Use security guidance to protect data, access, credentials, and platform boundaries.
  6. Use the audit checklist to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, and compliance. — API Audit Checklist

Metro lines

Design Line

Focuses on solution and interface design principles that can be used across APIs, integrations, automations, data products, and other implementation styles.

Delivery Line

Covers delivery and operational practices for reusable capabilities across implementation styles.

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Resources for Delivery & Operations

checklist

API Audit Checklist

A lifecycle-based checklist to verify API readiness across design, delivery, publishing, and compliance using defined audit criteria and evidence.

Outcomes

  • Shared understanding of the purpose and use of API Audit Checklist
  • A consistent approach to applying API Audit Checklist
  • Improved application of the related practices

How it works

  1. Use the API Audit Checklist to ensure the API design meets functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, and compliance.
  2. Conduct audits to assess lifecycle coverage and verify that the API meets business, design, and operational standards.
  3. Ensure that documentation, security models, gateway configuration, and legal requirements are clearly defined, validated, and supported by evidence.

Relevant cycles

API Productization Cycle

The API-focused APIOps Cycles journey for productizing, designing, delivering, publishing, and improving APIs.

Automation Cycle

A cycle for identifying, designing, delivering, enabling, and improving automation opportunities.