How to separate Development and Production environment on Azure API management?
I am developing an application using microservice-based architecture. I Know that on Azure API management we can register our APIs. Now the problem I am facing is that my micro-services(development and production ) are deployed on AKS(Azure Kubernetes Service) and both have different IP Addresses as provided by the AKS. How do I differentiate between the two environments so that my front end team has two separate URLs for development and production? The base URI of the API Gateway on azure is pre-configured and cannot be changed, how do I get two URLs?
My main concern is do I need to create two instances of Azure API Management Service?
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Have you checked Azure API Management DevOps Resource Kit . As recommended, yes you need to create two instances for your environments and deploy using ARM templates
If you don't want to create several instances, you might also try using versions and revisions.
- Revisions
You can create revisions by right-clicking an API and tap "Add revision". 
The revision can be accessed via the rev=2 url specifier as shown in the picture above. After successful testing, you can easily set a revision to be the "current" API, which won't need a revision specifier anymore.
- Versions
You can create a version by right-clicking an API and tap "Add version". 
In the "Versioning scheme" dropdown, you can also choose how the version should be specified. The options are:
- Path
- Query string
- Header
so you can target each version separately.