GraphQL 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. 

GraphQL is a newer type of approach to APIs that is gaining ground quickly. GraphQL is extremely flexible and highly efficient.

This lab is targeted at infrastructure engineers beginning a new journey down the path to automation.  

At the end of this lab, you will have an understanding of and hands-on experience with:

• GraphQL terminology and fundamental concepts
• Reading GraphQL API documentation
• Practice creating, reading, updating and deleting data using GraphQL

This lab uses the following components:

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