Recommended next steps

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

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Congratulations! You have successfully set up an Apigee organization with Pay-as-you-go billing! There are two important tasks to complete as you begin your journey with Apigee:

Test your runtime end to end
Add developers and other collaborators

Test your runtime end to end

From the Overview, you can test your Apigee runtime end-to-end by deploying a sample proxy and then sending a test request to the proxy.

Deploy the sample proxy

Click Deploy API on the Test your Apigee runtime card to deploy the sample Hello World proxy. When deployment completes, the card displays steps for sending a test request.

Call the proxy with external access

If you selected external access in Step 4: Configure access routing:

Send a test request to the proxy using the following command:
```
curl -H "Host: EXTERNAL_IP.nip.io" \
  https://EXTERNAL_IP/helloworld
```
Where EXTERNAL_IP is the external IP address of your runtime instance. For example:
```
curl -H "Host: 35.244.227.125.nip.io" \
  https://35.244.227.125/helloworld
```
A successful request returns the string: Hello, Guest! If your request is not successful, see Troubleshooting.
Set up and test a DNS entry for your host. Create a DNS entry using either of the following methods:
- At your registrar, create an A record pointing your environment group hostname to the IP address of your Apigee instance. For example, if your hostname is sales.example.com and the IP is 10.23.0.2, then point the record for sales.example.com to the address 10.23.0.2.
- Use Google Cloud DNS to map a URL to an IP address.
Once DNS setup is complete, send a test request to the proxy using the following command:
```
curl https://EXTERNAL_IP/helloworld
```
Where EXTERNAL_IP is the external IP address of your runtime instance. For example:
```
curl https://35.244.227.125/helloworld
```
A successful request returns the string: Hello, Guest! If your request is not successful, see Troubleshooting.

Call the proxy with internal access

If you selected internal access in Step 4: Configure access routing, follow the instructions in Calling an API proxy with internal-only access to test your proxy.

Add developers and other collaborators

You can use Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant permissions to developers or other collaborators to access and manage your API program. For more information on using IAM to define who has what access to which resource in your Apigee implementation, see the IAM overview.

Next steps

Take a tour of the Apigee tutorials, including:
- Guarding against sudden traffic spikes.
- Getting a detailed view of the request/response flow.

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Last updated 2026-07-23 UTC.