REST Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals

Infrastructures today are constructed as a collection of building blocks stacked together to form the system as a whole. The individual blocks represent the different technical domains such as campus and branch, data center networking, compute, security, wireless, and cloud. Effectively automating environments with disparate systems will require interacting with multiple systems programmatically.

The programmatic interface that is exposed by devices in your infrastructure is called an API. RESTful APIs are one of the most popular approaches to building APIs

This lab aims to expose up-and-coming automation engineers to RESTful Application Programming Interfaces.

This lab will introduce the learning to the following key areas of the RESTful API with many hands-on challenges to reinforce the concepts.

• RESTful API Overview 
• RESTful API Authentication 
• RESTFul API Methods

• Ubuntu Linux 
• Visual Studio Code 
• Thunder Client - REST API Client
• phonebook - Python FastAPI Application