API Management vs. Service Flow

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I have a very basic setup: APIM + SF with WebAPI Stateless Service (Kestrel). Just trying to make this POC work. Unsuccessful so far... :(

Following the available instructions I got to the point, where I am having problems with the APIM inbound policies... What am I supposed to use for the backend-id? Besides the "servicefabric" one (from examples), I have tried probably all of the options from my "service fabric" instance metadata. It keeps coming back to me with: "Backend with id 'whatever-I-put-in-here' could not be found."

I would really appreciate if someone could shed some light into what exactly is meant by backend-id=""!

Thanks, Peter

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azure-service-fabricazure-api-management
The backend-id has to reference a "backend resource" that has been created via the API Management API (or deployment template) as there currently is no UI to create these backend resources. In the deployment template pointed to by the article the definition of the backend resource is here github.com/Azure-Samples/service-fabric-api-management/blob/… – Darrel Miller

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The backend-id has to reference a "backend resource" that has been created via the API Management API (or deployment template) as there currently is no UI to create these backend resources. In the deployment template pointed to by the article the definition of the backend resource is here:

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/service-fabric-api-management/blob/master/apim.json#L162

You can use this API call to list the existing backends for your service:

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/{serviceName}/backends?api-version=2017-03-01

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/apimanagement/backend/listbyservice