Task #6752
Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago
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:
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Creating/deleting/changing VMs
- POST /vm/
Creating/deleting/changing Networks
Creating/deleting/changing Storage
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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
h2. Request definition
h3. 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