Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes · Module 11 · Automation
REST APIs and when to reach for them
Lesson 130 of 201 · 2 min
REST access gives you programmatic invocation of platform operations, from any system that can make an HTTP call. When it is the right tool: integration into an orchestration platform, invocation from another application, or something the command-line utility does not express. WHEN IT IS NOT: ANYTHING A SCHEDULED COMMAND OR A JOB SCHEDULER ENTRY DOES PERFECTLY WELL. Building a REST integration for a nightly backup is a maintenance burden with no benefit. Authentication, including token-based access — and note that this is the same identity model as everything else in the course. Nothing new to learn; Module 6 already covered it. A REST INTEGRATION IS CODE SOMEONE OWNS. Name them, document it, and include it in the estate register. Undocumented integrations are how estates become unmaintainable — and unlike a script on a server, nothing about a REST integration announces its existence. Scoped honestly: building REST integrations is development work…
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In this module: Module 11 · Automation
- 1Three tools, one questionFree preview
- 2Job Scheduler
- 3Installing and configuring the automation utility
- 4Authentication and credential handling
- 5The command surface
- 6Scripting patterns: backup and export
- 7Scripting patterns: data load and refresh
- 8Error handling and logging
- 9Scheduling and service accounts
- 10REST APIs and when to reach for them
- 11The integration agent
- 12What breaks
- 13Lab: automate it, and write the runbook