Quickstart: Create a new Azure API Management service instance using Visual Studio Code
Azure API Management (APIM) helps organizations publish APIs to external, partner, and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services. API Management provides the core competencies to ensure a successful API program through developer engagement, business insights, analytics, security, and protection. APIM enables you to create and manage modern API gateways for existing backend services hosted anywhere. For more information, see the Overview topic.
This quickstart describes the steps for creating a new API Management instance using the Azure API Management Extension for Visual Studio Code. You can also use the extension to perform common management operations on your API Management instance.
Prerequisites
If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
Additionally, ensure you have installed the following:
Sign in to Azure
Launch Visual Studio Code and open the Azure extension. (If you don't see the Azure icon on the Activity Bar, make sure the Azure API Management extension is enabled.)
Select Sign in to Azure... to launch a browser window and sign in to your Microsoft account.
Create an API Management service
Once you're signed in to your Microsoft account, the Azure: API Management explorer pane will list your Azure subscription(s).
Right-click on the subscription you'd like to use, and select Create API Management in Azure.
In the pane that opens, supply a name for the new API Management instance. It must be globally unique within Azure and consist of 1-50 alphanumeric characters and/or hyphens, and start with a letter and end with an alphanumeric.
A new API Management instance (and parent resource group) will be created with the specified name. By default, the instance is created in the West US region with Consumption SKU.
Tip
If you enable Advanced Creation in the Azure API Management Extension Settings, you can also specify an API Management SKU, Azure region, and a resource group to deploy your API Management instance.
While the Consumption SKU takes less than a minute to provision, other SKUs typically take 30-40 minutes to create.
At this point, you're ready to import and publish your first API. You can do that and also perform common API Management operations within the extension for Visual Studio Code. See the tutorial for more.
Clean up resources
When no longer needed, remove the API Management instance by right-clicking and selecting Open in Portal to delete the API Management service and its resource group.
Alternately, you can select Delete API Management to only delete the API Management instance (this operation doesn't delete its resource group).
