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Quickstart: Create your API center - portal

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Create your API center to start an inventory of your organization's APIs. Azure API Center enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance.

After creating your API center, follow the steps in the tutorials to add custom metadata, APIs, versions, definitions, and other information.

Prerequisites

  • If you don't have an Azure subscription, create an Azure free account before you begin.

  • At least a Contributor role assignment or equivalent permissions in the Azure subscription.

Register the Microsoft.ApiCenter provider

If you haven't already, you need to register the Microsoft.ApiCenter resource provider in your subscription. You only need to register the resource provider once.

To register the resource provider using the portal:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

  2. In the search bar, enter Subscriptions and select Subscriptions.

  3. Select the subscription where you want to create the API center.

  4. In the left menu, under Resources, select Resource providers.

  5. Search for Microsoft.ApiCenter in the list of resource providers. If it's not registered, select Register.

Create an API center

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

  2. In the search bar, enter API Centers.

  3. Select + Create.

  4. On the Basics tab, select or enter the following settings:

    1. Select your Azure subscription.

    2. Select an existing resource group, or select Create new to create a new one.

    3. Enter a Name for your API center. It must be unique in the region where you're creating your API center.

    4. In Region, select one of the available regions for Azure API Center, for example, West Europe.

    5. In Pricing plan, select the pricing plan that meets your needs.

  5. Optionally, on the Tags tab, add one or more name/value pairs to help you categorize your Azure resources.

  6. Select Review + create.

  7. After validation completes, select Create.

After deployment, your API center is ready to use!

Next steps

Now you can start adding information to the inventory in your API center. To help you organize your APIs and other information, begin by defining custom metadata in your API center.

Define custom metadata