Introduction to provisioning

This page applies to Apigee, but not to Apigee hybrid.

View Apigee Edge documentation.

This section describes the prerequisites and process for installing and configuring Apigee with either an eval organization or a paid (non-evaluation) organization. A paid organization can use Subscription or Pay-as-you-go pricing. We refer to the installation and configuration process for any organization as provisioning.

Note: For instructions on installing Apigee hybrid, see What is Apigee hybrid?

Apigee provisioning process flow diagram

Get ready

• If you are new to Google Cloud, review Cloud getting-started documentation.
• If you are new to Apigee, review Apigee getting-started documentation.

Before you begin

1. Ensure that you have met all of the following prerequisites:
   • A Google Cloud account with active billing
   • A new Google Cloud project
   • Google Cloud SDK software installed (required for command line provisioning steps)
   • curl software installed (recommended)
   • Google Cloud IAM permissions sufficient to provision
2. Determine if you want to use a paid org or eval org. See Compare evaluation and paid organizations.
3. Determine if you want to specify data residency for your organization. See Introduction to data residency.
4. Review any Google Cloud organization policy resource location constraints in your Google Cloud project. See Data residency and organization policy constraints.
5. Select one of the provisioning options listed in Provisioning options.
6. If you selected command line instructions as your provisioning option, select a networking option.

Provision

Follow the provisioning steps based on the option you selected in Provisioning options.

Note: When you submit the completed configuration for provisioning Apigee, you cannot go back and change the hosting region and encryption key selections. Apigee does not support updating the hosting region or encryption key selections after provisioning is complete.

Next steps

The final provisioning step for each org type (eval, Subscription, or Pay-as-you-go) and method (Cloud Console, Apigee wizard, or command line) is to deploy a sample proxy.

New to Google Cloud?

If you are new to Google Cloud, familiarize yourself with the following:

Title	Description
Google Cloud essentials	Provides quickstarts, tutorials, interactive walkthroughs, technical documentation, videos, and architectural diagrams to help you get started using Google Cloud.
Google Cloud overview	Provides a brief description on regions, zones, services, resources (global, regional, zonal), projects, the Google Cloud console, command-line interface, and client libraries.
Google Cloud billing	A collection of tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs
Manage your Cloud Billing account	Provides instructions on creating a Cloud Billing account which is required to use Apigee
Creating and managing projects	Provides instructions on how to create a project. Google Cloud projects form the basis for creating, enabling, and using all Google Cloud services including Apigee.
Data encryption options	Select Google-managed (default) or customer-managed encryption. Google-managed encryption keys encrypt your data on the server side, before it is written to disk. Customer-managed encryption keys are created and managed using Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), and you store the keys as software keys, in an HSM cluster, or externally.

New to Apigee?

If you are new to Apigee, familiarize yourself with the following:

Title	Description
What is Apigee?	Describes Apigee architecture, discusses making services available to users, API products, and Apigee components
Apigee terminology	Explains some basic Apigee terminology.
Apigee glossary	Defines concepts and terms that have a unique meaning in Apigee.
Introduction to data residency	Describes data residency, discusses regions and multi-regions, and describes how the region is part of the service endpoint.
Introduction to CMEK	Describes using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) with Apigee