2010-2013 Use the OpenStack APIs in your OpenStack cloud: Identity service, Compute and Compute extensions, Image service, Volumes, and Object Storage. You must install the packages for each API separately. After you authenticate through the Identity service API, you can use the other APIs and extensions to launch server instances, create images, assign metadata to instances and images, create containers and objects, and complete other actions in your OpenStack cloud. To get started with the APIs, see the API Quick Start Guide. For detailed information, read descriptions or specifications for each API. Gets an authentication token that permits access to the Compute API for 24 hours. The version of the Identity API is 2.0. Launches virtual machines based on the images uploaded to the system. Also, connects to a server instance securely through SSH once it starts and reboots or resizes server instances as needed. API v1.1 is identical to API v2. Adds capabilities to the Compute API beyond those defined in the core API. Use extensions to add features, MIME types, actions, states, headers, parameters, and resources to the core API. Query the Compute API to list available extensions with a GET request to v2/extensions.

Shows extra information when you create a server.

Creates multiple servers with an optional reservation ID.

Gets the output from the console log for a server.

Gets the usage data for a server.

Accesses a VNC console for a specified server.

This extension retrieves and resets the encrypted admin password set through metadata service.

Starts and stops a server.

Rescues or unrescues a server.

Permits administrators to perform actions on a server.

Extends servers and images with a diskConfig attribute.

Restores or force-deletes a server when you deploy nova with deferred delete on.

Adds vm_state, task_state, and power_state to detailed server responses.

Adds metadata to and shows additional metadata for servers.

Shows data for a specified fixed IP, such as host name, CIDR, and address. Also, reserves or frees a fixed IP.

Assigns and allocates floating IP addresses to instances that run in an OpenStack cloud.

Bulk creates, deletes, and lists floating IPs. By default, the pool is named nova. Use the os-floating-ip-pools extension to view available pools.

Manages DNS records associated with IP addresses allocated by the Floating IPs extension. Requests are dispatched to a DNS driver selected at startup.

Manages groups of floating IPs.

This extension shows the type of the IPs assigned to an instance, either fixed or floating.

Creates and manages host aggregates. An aggregate assigns metadata to groups of compute nodes. Aggregates are only visible to the cloud provider.

Creates, updates, and deletes guest agents. Use guest agents to access files on the disk, configure networking, or run other applications or scripts in the guest while it runs. This hypervisor-specific extension is not currently enabled for KVM. Use of guest agents is possible only if the underlying service provider uses the Xen driver.

Manages virtual vpns for projects.

Creates and deletes flavors.

Creates a flavor, gets details for a specified flavor, and lists details for available flavors. Includes the rxtx_factor extended attribute, related to configured bandwidth cap values.

Creates a flavor, gets details for a flavor, and lists details for available flavors. Includes the rxtx_factor, OS-FLV-EXT-DATA:ephermeral, and swap extended attributes.

Generates, imports, and deletes SSH keys.

Manages physical hosts.

Displays extra statistical information from the machine that hosts the hypervisor through the API for the hypervisor (XenAPI or KVM/libvirt).

Shows network information and deletes networks. Also, disassociates a network from a project if you use vlan mode.

Permits administrators, depending on policy settings, to view quotas for a tenant and view and update default quotas.

Provides information directly to the scheduler when you create a server.

Creates, modifies, and deletes security groups and rules.

Reports statistics on compute and storage resources.

Lists the virtual interfaces for a specified server instance.

Extends limits to show the usage of per project limits. Shows information such as RAM or instance quotas usage.

Loads images for use at launch time by the Compute API. Some cloud implementations do not expose this API and offer pre-tested images only. Also, assigns metadata to images.

Manages volumes and snapshots for use with the Volume API (nova-volume or cinder services).

Manages volumes and snapshots for use with the Compute API.

Attaches volumes created through the volume API to server instances. Also, lists volume attachments for a server instance, gets volume details for a volume attachment, and deletes a volume attachment.

Manages the accounts, containers and objects in the object storage system.