POST /api/compute_resources
Create a compute resource

Examples

POST /api/compute_resources
{
  "compute_resource": {
    "name": "mycompute",
    "provider": "libvirt"
  }
}
422
{
  "error": {
    "id": null,
    "errors": {
      "name": [
        "has already been taken"
      ],
      "url": [
        "is invalid",
        "can't be blank"
      ]
    },
    "full_messages": [
      "Name has already been taken",
      "Url is invalid",
      "Url can't be blank"
    ]
  }
}

Params

Param name Description
location_id
optional

Scope by locations

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer
organization_id
optional

Scope by organizations

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer
compute_resource
required

Validations:

  • Must be a Hash
compute_resource[name]
required

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[provider]
optional , nil allowed

Providers include Libvirt, Ovirt, EC2, Vmware, Openstack, Rackspace, GCE

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[url]
optional , nil allowed

URL for Libvirt, oVirt, OpenStack and Rackspace

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[description]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[user]
optional , nil allowed

Username for oVirt, EC2, VMware, OpenStack. Access Key for EC2.

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[password]
optional , nil allowed

Password for oVirt, EC2, VMware, OpenStack. Secret key for EC2

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[uuid]
optional , nil allowed

Deprecated, please use datacenter

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[datacenter]
optional , nil allowed

for oVirt, VMware Datacenter

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[use_v4]
optional , nil allowed

for oVirt only

Validations:

  • Must be one of: true, false, 1, 0
compute_resource[ovirt_quota]
optional , nil allowed

for oVirt only

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[region]
optional , nil allowed

for EC2 only

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[tenant]
optional , nil allowed

for OpenStack only

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[domain]
optional , nil allowed

for OpenStack only

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[server]
optional , nil allowed

for VMware

Validations:

  • Must be a String
compute_resource[set_console_password]
optional , nil allowed

for Libvirt and VMware only

Validations:

  • Must be one of: true, false, 1, 0
compute_resource[display_type]
optional , nil allowed

for Libvirt only

Validations:

  • Must be one of: VNC, SPICE.
compute_resource[caching_enabled]
optional , nil allowed

enable caching, for VMware only

Validations:

  • Must be one of: true, false, 1, 0
compute_resource[location_ids]
optional , nil allowed

REPLACE locations with given ids

Validations:

  • Must be an array of any type
compute_resource[organization_ids]
optional , nil allowed

REPLACE organizations with given ids.

Validations:

  • Must be an array of any type