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title: "5 principles for deploying your API from a CI/CD pipeline"
date: 2019-07-26T00:00:00+02:00
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At Red Hat, we strongly believe an API is not “just another piece of software.” Instead, we think an API is a software component in conjunction with:

An interface to communicate with it.
An ecosystem of consumers that communicate with this software.
A relationship with developers consuming this API.
An API is built, deployed, and managed not just with the usual methods; as a result, deploying your API from a CI/CD pipeline requires additional processes, tools, and skills.

In this article, we will focus on the overarching principles and key steps to deploy your API from a CI/CD pipeline.

[Continue reading](https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/07/26/5-principles-for-deploying-your-api-from-a-ci-cd-pipeline/)