Presented at API World 2019 and API Specs Conference 2019.
OpenAPI has become the standard way to describe APIs and Services but when it comes to runtime configuration, it’s a Tower of Babel: each vendor takes a different approach, or worse, DevOps are forced back into a UI, with no good way to script and automate deployments. We’ll examine the current state of declaring configuration in API Definitions and examine proposals to improve infrastructure as code via OpenAPI.