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Infrastructure Management API

21 Feb 2022
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Infrastructure Management API

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Article Summary

The Infrastructure Management API Endpoints offer a simple mechanism for querying, creating, and updating server, environment, and server role entries; they are intended to automate the set-up and management of an Otter instance.

These API endpoints should be used instead of the Native API Methods when possible, as they are much easier to use and will likely not change.

For security and simplicity, these endpoints require that an API Key is created first.

Data Specification

This endpoint sends and receives entries as JSON objects.

Server

Property	Format
`name`	A string of no more than fifty characters: numbers (0-9), upper- and lower-case letters (a-Z), dashes (-), and underscores (_); must start with a letter, and may not start or end with a dash or underscore. Required.
`roles`	An array of strings, each consisting of a server role name. Optional.
`environments`	An array of strings, each consisting of an environment name. Optional.
`drift`	A string value of `none`, `reportOnly`, or `automaticallyRedmediate`. Required.
`serverType`	A string value of `windows`, `ssh`, `local`, or `powershell`. Required.
`hostName`	A string of the hostname of the server. Required for `windows` and `ssh`.
`port`	An integer of the port to use of the server. Required for `windows` and `ssh`.
`encryptionType`	A string value of `aes`, `ssl`, or `none`. Required for `windows`.
`encryptionKey`	A string containing exactly 32 hexidecimal characters. Required when `encryptionType` is `aes`.
`requireSsl`	A boolean indicating whether to only connect using SSL. Required when `encryptionType` is `ssl`.
`credentialsType`	A string containing the type of resource credential to use. Required for `ssh`.
`credentialsName`	A string containing the name of a resource credential to use. Required for `ssh`. Optional for `powershell`.
`tempPath`	A string containing the name of the temporary path to use for files. Required for `ssh` and `powershell`.
`wsManUrl`	A string containing the WSMan endpoint. Optional for `powershell`.
`active`	A boolean indicating whether the server is active or disabled. Optional.
`variables`	An object with property/values representing variable names and values. Optional. a variable name is a string of no more than fifty characters: numbers (0-9), upper- and lower-case letters (a-Z), dashes (-), spaces ( ), and underscores (_) and must start with a letter, and may not start or end with a dash, underscore, or space; a variable a variable value is a string of any number of characters

Server Role

Property	Format
`name`	same format as server.name
`variables`	same format as server.variables

Environment

Property	Format
`name`	same format as server.name
`parentName`	A string containing the name of the parent environment, or null if there is no parent environment. Optional.
`variables`	same format as server.variables

Endpoint Specifications

All of the infrastructure management endpoints follow the same convention:

POST /api/infrastructure/«entry-type»/«action-type»/«entry-name»?key=«api-key»

entry-type is one of servers, roles, or environments
action-type is one of [list](#list), [create](#create), [update](#update), or [delete](#delete)
entry-name is the name of the entry being created, updated, or deleted; it is not valid on a list action type

List Entries

This returns a status of 200 (on success), or 403 (api key not authorized), and a body containing only an array of entry objects.

List Servers

POST /api/infrastructure/servers/list?key=secure123

[
  {
    "name": "hdarsintsv1",
    "roles": ["web","hdars"],
    "environments": ["integration"],
    ...
    "variables": {
                   "disk-path": "/var/hdars/1000",
                   "app-name": "hdars"
                 },
    "active": true
  },
  {
    "name": "mdapxsv",
    "roles": [],
    "environments": ["test1","test2"],
    ...
    "variables": {}
  },
  { ... }
]

List Server Roles

POST /api/infrastructure/roles/list?key=secure123

[
  {
    "name": "web",
    "variables": {
                   "websites-root": "c:\webroots\"
                 }
  },
  {
    "name": "hdars",
    "variables": {}
  },    
  { ... }
]

List Environments

POST /api/infrastructure/environments/list?key=secure123

[
  {
    "name": "integration",
    "parent": null,
    "variables": {
                   "database-alias": "intagration"
                 }
  },
  {
    "name": "testing",
    "parent": null,
    "variables": {
                   "database-alias": "test"
                 }
  },
  {
    "name": "test1",
    "parent": "testing",
    "variables": {}
  },
  {
    "name": "test2",
    "parent": "testing",
    "variables": {}
  },
  { ... }
]

The above is an example, and truncates responses for readability with ellipses; the API key used requires the Infrastructure_View permission.

Create Entry

This returns a status of 201 (on success), 403 (api key not authorized), or 422 (invalid entry), and an body containing either the entry object, or a description of the 422 status.

If the entity references another entity (e.g. in the roles property of a server, or the parent property of environment) and the referenced entity does not exist, an invalid entry (422) will be returned. {.announcement}

We opted not to provide an example, as the request body is simply a JSON object formatted like the list examples. The API key used requires the Infrastructure_Manage permission.

Update Entry

This returns a status of 200 (on success), 403 (api key not authorized), 404 (entry not found), or 422 (invalid entry), and an body containing either the entry object, or a description of the 422 status.

If there are missing properties on the entity, only the specified properties will be updated. {.announcement}

Update Server

POST /api/infrastructure/servers/update/hdarsintsv1?key=secure123

{
  "roles": ["web","hdars","code-server"],
  "encryption": "none"
}

Note that, in this case, the encryptionKey property would be removed on update because the encryption type changed.

Rename Server Role

POST /api/infrastructure/roles/update/hdars?key=secure123

{ "name": "new-hdars"}

Remove Parent Environment

POST /api/infrastructure/environments/update/test1?key=secure123

{ "parent" : null }

Delete Entry

This returns a status of 200 (on success), 403 (api key not authorized), or 404 (entry not found), and an empty body.

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