Introduction to ACP
6connect’s API Composer Platform (ACP) is a vendor-agnostic toolbox for development against single or multiple API service providers. ACP endeavors to serve as a universal glue layer for all API-driven development in order to standardize and streamline automation logic, save developer time, and increase the overall robustness of API-driven code.
The primary features of ACP are the following:
- Contains a library of built-in connectors to many common services:
- 6connect ProVision
- Amazon AWS
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- VMWare vCenter
- Kubernetes
- Supports cross-vendor and multi-account actions with API service providers
- Supports automatic rollbacks for most API actions, greatly simplifying development
- Speeds up execution times for multi-step tasks
- Allows new ACP Workflows to be quickly prototyped based on previous work
- Provides a centralized repository for all API-driven glue code
- Utilizes a compact JSON data format for easy sharing and support
- Contains an extensive library of examples to directly illustrate product features
- Supports embedded Javascript for complex data transformations
- Cleanly supports iteration over complex data objects
- Provides functionality for providing user-defined connectivity to other services
Once created, ACP Workflows can be executed as a single API call to the ACP Server. Many advanced automation and integration tasks can be accomplished by pairing 6connect ACP with 6connect ProVision.
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