hack4glarus » hack4glarus-2019-summer

Idea: we create a REST API that allows users to manage VMs including networks that we LIKE.

Background: instead of specifying / coding directly, create something that can be easily portable and can use either kvm/qemu/xen/docker/k8s/bhyve/opennebula/... in the background.

Specification of v1:

Creating/deleting/changing VMs

- POST /vm/

Creating/deleting/changing Networks

Creating/deleting/changing Storage

Questions to be answered:

• How to ignore authentication and authorization?
  • Suggestion: we define an "abstract" token
  • Can be $random
  • Or can be username/realm/token
  • Or whatever

Request definition¶

Authentication¶

• Client sends a token of undefined form with each request
• If there is no token, it is an anonymous request
• The API returns http XXX, if the token was not valid for the resource/method