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Promoting an API Instance to Another Environment

Before promoting an API instance to another environment, ensure that you have the Manage APIs Configuration permission.

To promote an entity, you must have permissions to view and manage the entity. For example, you must have the View Policies and Manage Policies permissions to promote a policy.

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Promoting an API instance affects only the API definition, not the existing deployed applications subscribed to the instance. After promoting an API, the API Label remains the same, but the API Instance ID changes.

For existing applications that must subscribe to a promoted API instance:

1. Update the API Instance ID within the application.

2. Update the application’s client ID and secret (because each environment has a different client ID and secret).

See Also

• Granting Permission to Access an environment

• Environments

• Creating an API instance on API Manager