API Documentation

Documentation on the zCompute API and relevant API Endpoints is built-in to every zCompute Cloud. You can access it from the zCompute webUI help menu, found at the top right of every page:

API Explorer

Visiting the API Explorer while logged into your zCompute account will automatically generate a token and copy it to your clipboard:

When testing an authorized API Endpoint, simply click the Authorize button and paste your token to authenticate:

API Token

When using curl or any other 3rd-party tools a token can be retrieved by making a call against /api/v2/identity/auth with some key data included. If the authentication was successful, the reply will include the API token in the X-Subject-Token header.

The included data is as follows (with the username, password, and account name substituted in).

The request data can be scoped to an entire Account as follows:

{
  "auth": {
    "identity": {
      "methods": [
        "password"
      ],
      "password": {
        "user": {
          "name": "<USERNAME>",
          "password": "<PASSWORD>",
          "domain": {
            "name": "<ACCOUNT_NAME>"
          }
       }
     }
  },
  "scope": {
    "domain": {
      "name": "<ACCOUNT_NAME>"
      }
    }
  }
}

This could also be scoped to a project with:

{
  "auth": {
    "identity": {
      "methods": [
        "password"
      ],
      "password": {
        "user": {
          "name": "<USER_NAME>",
          "password": "<PASSWORD>",
          "domain": {
            "name": "<ACCOUNT_NAME>"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "scope": {
      "project": {
        "domain": {
          "name": "<ACCOUNT_NAME>"
        },
        "name": "<PROJECT_NAME>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Many API calls can only be made when scoped to a project.

An example of this authentication call can be seen below:

curl -s -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"auth":{"identity":{"methods":["password"],"password":{"user":{"name":"<USERNAME>","password":"<PASSWORD>","domain":{"name":"<ACCOUNT_NAME>"}}}},"scope":{"domain":{"name":"<ACCOUNT_NAME>"}}}}' "https://<API_ENDPOINT>/api/v2/identity/auth"

This can be extracted cleanly from the above output with:

<AUTH CALL> | grep -i X-Subject-Token | sed 's/[^:]*:[ ]*//'

API Endpoints for AWS Compatibility

zCompute includes a number of AWS-compatible endpoints to allow for the usage of standard APIs for things like EC2 and IAM.

Some boto3 examples can be found here: boto3 for ec2 — zCompute

Access Keys

Access keys for use with the AWS APIs can be generated from the zCompute webUI from the My Account > Access Keys page:

AWS Endpoints

The list of endpoints can be found on the zCompute webUI help menu.