Apigee maven plugin Vs apigeectl

[abiram8]

We have 3 options for Apigee automated deployment if use case already have the cloud build (trigger)
1 Option: To build and deploy Apigee proxies using Maven and Cloud Build, you will need to use the Apigee Maven plugin within a Cloud Build pipeline. Advantage : fully automatic
2nd option: apigee-edge-maven-plugin is a build and deploy utility for building and deploying the Apigee ApiProxy's/Application bundles into Apigee Platform. (This does not use Cloud Build) https://github.com/apigee/apigee-deploy-maven-plugin
3rd Option: use thethe Apigee CLI within your Cloud Build pipeline, without relying on the Apigee Maven plugin.
Listed option https://github.com/apigee/apigeecli/blob/main/docs/apigeecli.md lists the deployment of products,kvm and shared flow and proxies, but (Option 1 and 2) which uses apigee mavenh plugin ttps://github.com/apigee/apigee-deploy-maven-plugin lists only for proxies and shared flow deployment does not list all other like apigeectl. Let me know if iam missing anything, hence better option will be to use Option 3 with Cloud Build for Apigee automated CI/CD or should we be aware of any other details ?

[ssvaidyanathan]

@abiram8 - not sure I follow the difference between option 1 and 2

Both are using Apigee Maven plugin only

As you mentioned, this Maven plugin is only meant for deploying sharedflows and proxies to Apigee. If you want to use Maven to deploy Apigee configurations like KVMs, target servers, products, apps, etc, you will then include Apigee Config Maven plugin

We have two samples using these plugins in our Apigee-samples repo

• deploy-apigee-config demonstrates how you can use the Maven plugin to push Apigee configurations using Cloud Build
• deploy-apigee-proxy demonstrates how you can use the Maven plugin to deploy a proxy using Cloud Build
• deploy-apigee-sharedflow demonstrates how you can use the Maven plugin to deploy a Sharedflow using Cloud Build

You can combine all the Maven goals for config and deploying proxy in one pom and orchestrate it all in one file and call it from Cloud Build as well.

Hope this clarifies

[ssvaidyanathan]

apigeecli is just another flavor of automating Apigee artifacts. You can use this also in your CI/CD pipeline