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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Chapter 20. CloudStack API</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Common_Content/css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="Common_Content/css/print.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="publican 2.8" /><meta name="package" content="" /></head><body><div class="chapter" id="api-overview"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title">Chapter 20. CloudStack API</h1></div></div></div><div class="para">
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The CloudStack API is a low level API that has been used to implement the CloudStack web UIs. It is also a good basis for implementing other popular APIs such as EC2/S3 and emerging DMTF standards.
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Many CloudStack API calls are asynchronous. These will return a Job ID immediately when called. This Job ID can be used to query the status of the job later. Also, status calls on impacted resources will provide some indication of their state.
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The API has a REST-like query basis and returns results in XML or JSON.
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See <a href="http://docs.cloudstack.org/CloudStack_Documentation/Developer's_Guide%3A_CloudStack">the Developer’s Guide</a> and <a href="http://docs.cloudstack.org/CloudStack_Documentation/API_Reference%3A_CloudStack">the API Reference</a>.
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</div><div class="section" id="provisioning-auth-api"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title" id="provisioning-auth-api">20.1. Provisioning and Authentication API</h1></div></div></div><div class="para">
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CloudStack expects that a customer will have their own user provisioning infrastructure. It provides APIs to integrate with these existing systems where the systems call out to CloudStack to add/remove users..
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CloudStack supports pluggable authenticators. By default, CloudStack assumes it is provisioned with the user’s password, and as a result authentication is done locally. However, external authentication is possible as well. For example, see Using an LDAP Server for User Authentication.
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