<![CDATA[RESTapi – A teach yourself lab!]]>

<![CDATA[RESTapi – A teach yourself lab!]]>Here is a lab I put together for a recent event, it was well received and I think it is very valuable to the ManageIQ and CloudForms user bases.

In the lab you will GET and POST RESTapi actions. Its a basic look at some common use cases such as,

Query a VM’s hardware inventory.
Query the VMS for any who are tagged with “Function/Database”
Show the tags on a specific VM
Create new Category and Tag in the appliance
Assign a Category/Tag to a VM
Provision a VM
Query the status of the Provision request.

The lab expects you to have an appliance provisioned and connected to a provider (the lab uses AMAZON EC2) Therefore when querying attributes of a vm/instance the return list is specific to the provider. CPU’s are not available on AWS EC2, whereas availability zones are.

Note : Cut and Pasting the code from the slides can introduce ASCII translation errors depending on platform. Take care to ensure quotes are “.

I will do another post in the future to cover off “PUT, PATCH and DELETE” actions.

The slides are here in PDF format – https://www.dropbox.com/s/14vwhd1fcb97prg/RESTapi.pdf?dl=0