NEXT LEVEL LAB — DevOps API Testing (AWS + Auth + CI/CD mindset)

🎯 Scenario You deployed a backend API (FastAPI / Node / Java — doesn’t matter) on: AWS ECS / EKS / EC2 Behind Load Balancer Example API: http://your-api-alb.amazonaws.com You must: Verify it works Validate authentication Test protected endpoints Catch failures BEFORE deployment 🧠 PART 1 — WHERE API IS LOCATED (REAL WORLD) In real DevOps: 🔹 AWS ECS / ALB http://my-api-123.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com 🔹 Kubernetes (Ingress) http://api.mycompany.com 🔹 API Gateway https://abc123.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod 👉 This URL = your entry point 🧠 PART 2 — API STRUCTURE (REAL APP) Typical endpoints: Endpoint Purpose /health Health check /login Auth /users Data /orders Business logic 🚀 PART 3 — BUILD REAL POSTMAN COLLECTION 📁 ENVIRONMENT { "base_url" : "http://your-api-alb.amazonaws.com" } ✅ TEST 1 — HEALTH CHECK (CRITICAL) Request: GET {{base_url}}/health Tests: pm . test ( " Service is UP " , function () { pm . response . to . have . status ( 200 ); }); pm . test ( " Response contains s