Infrastructure Management API

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.

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

Server Role

Environment

Endpoint Specifications

All of the infrastructure management endpoints follow the same convention:

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

• entry-type is one of servers, roles, or environments
• action-type is one of list, create, update, or delete
• entry-name is the name of the entry being created, updated, or deleted; it is not valid on a list action type
• name is the name of the server, role, or environment to return when using the list action type. The name query string parameter only works with the 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 a 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.

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 a 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.

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

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.