Introduction

Palette offers a range of capabilities you can access through the REST APIs. These REST APIs are designed in accordance with open API standards, which ensure that the platform's features can be integrated with other applications and systems. By utilizing these APIs, you can tap into the platform's capabilities through programmatic methods. Use the APIs to build custom integrations and workflows that leverage the power of the Palette.

Paths

Every API's URI has the prefix of the version and the Palette resource, such as: v1/spectroclusters/...

Authentication

Palette supports two types of API authentication methods that can be used to authenticate API requests:

• Authorization Token

• API Key

Authorization Token

You can acquire authorization tokens from Palette that have a 15-minute lifetime. The authorization token is passed as part of the HTTP request header. You can use the authorization token to authenticate and authorize the request. The header name is Authorization, and the token is the header value. Refer to the Authorization Token section to learn more about the authorization token.

API Key

You can use API keys to authenticate with the Palette API. API keys allow you to interact with Palette APIs without requiring user credentials such as username and password. The API key must be present in each API request to authenticate and authorize the request. The API Key is passed as part of the HTTP request header. The header name is apiKey, and the API key is the header value.

The following example shows how to pass the API key in the HTTP request header:

curl --location "https://api.spectrocloud.com/v1/spectroclusters/123456789?ProjectUid=12345678" \
 --header 'Accept: application/json' \
 --header "apiKey: 123456789"

Refer to the API Key section to learn how to create and manage API keys.

Requests

All requests are in the JSON format. In general, the request payload has three sections: metadata, spec and status.

• Metadata consists of common attributes for all the resources such as ids, names, creation timestamps etc.
• Spec consists of attributes that define the resource
• Status contains the status information of the resource. The API does not support creating or modifying the status section.

info

Certain update request schemas have restricted spec resource definitions, and specific fields like uid and creation timestamp cannot be modified post-creation.

HTTP Method	Description
POST	To create a resource or a sub-resource.
PUT	To update the resource or a sub-resource. The PUT request will overwrite the existing resource data.
PATCH	To add, modify, remove a specific attribute or sub-resource within a resource.
DELETE	To delete the resource.

Response Codes

The API returns standard HTTP response codes:

HTTP Code	Description
200	Request succeeded. The response payload will vary depending upon the API. Refer to the respective API response schema.
201	A resource was successfully created. The response payload contains the uid of the created resource.
204	Response without any content for a successful operation. These operations include update, delete and the other actions on the resource.
400	Bad request. The request does not adhere to the API request payload schema.
401	Missing authorization token or invalid authorization token.
403	The API operation is forbidden for the user.
404	The resource or the dependent resource is not found for the operation.
500	Operational error. For 500 error code, the server responds with an explicit error code and an error message.

Palette API Lifecycle

Palette APIs maintain backward compatibility until deprecation. The three API phases in the lifecycle are Production, Sunset, and Deprecated. Spectro Cloud will inform users when APIs transition through this lifecycle.

Production

The Palette APIs are designed to work as intended and expected.

Sunset

As the API approaches deprecation because it is being replaced or will no longer be supported, a notice will be provided in the documentation that outlines our intent and provides a cut-off date. Within three months of the deprecation date, a notice will be shared that counts down to the end date and recommends the API to use instead.

Deprecated

We indicate that an API is deprecated when it is no longer supported or recommended for use by including a tag to indicate its state. The API documentation will remain available as a subsection of deprecated APIs.

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The API lifecycle also applies to external-facing tools such as Terraform.

Versioning

The version information is included in the API URI, such as v1alpha1 or v1. Future APIs will increment the version, leaving the earlier version intact. The existing API request and response schema will be modified to add new attributes or query parameters while maintaining backward compatibility with earlier schemas. Prior notice will be given before advancing to the next version, and users will be advised to migrate to the new API.

Scope

Palette groups resources under either a Tenant or Project scope. When making API requests targeting resources belonging to a project, the project scope should be specified. To specify the project scope, use the HTTP header key ProjectUid with the value <Project Uid> in the API request. The ProjectUid needs to be specified for a request to be applied under a specific project scope.

Example:

 curl --location --request \
 GET 'https://api.spectrocloud.com/v1/edgehosts/ad3d90ab-de6e-3e48-800f-4d663cec3060?resolvePackValues=false' \
 --header 'Accept: application/json' \
 --header 'ProjectUid: ad3d90ab-de6e-3e48-800f-4d663cec3060'

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If you do not provide the ProjectUid header, then the assumed scope is of the tenant.

Pagination

API endpoints that return a list have a limit of 50 items per return payload. Pagination is necessary for this purpose. The API response for the list includes the listMeta resource that contains the continue token. To perform pagination, you need to check whether the continue token value is present in the API response. For subsequent requests, use the continue token as a query parameter to paginate the remaining resource items.

    "listmeta": {
        "continue": "eyJvZmZzZXQiOjUwLCJjb3VudCI6MTE3LCJ0b2tlbiI6IiJ9",
        "count": 117,
        "limit": 50,
        "offset": 50
    }

Example of a subsequent request using the continue token.

curl --location 'https://api.spectrocloud.com/v1/packs?continue=eyJvZmZzZXQiOjUwLCJjb3VudCI6MTE3LCJ0b2tlbiI6IiJ9' \
 --header 'Accept: application/json' \
 --header 'ProjectUid: yourProjectUid' \
 --header 'apiKey: yourAPIKey'

Rate Limits

The API rate limits are as follows:

• There is a limit of ten API requests per second for each source IP address. The API supports additional bursts through the usage of a burst queue. The default burst queue size is set to five. You could make 50 (10 * 5) requests in seconds before the API returns a 429 - TooManyRequests error. Refer to the Endpoint Prefix Rate for additional information.

• API request limits are categorized by the parent resources, such as /v1/cloudconfig/:uid and /v1/roles. You can find a list of all resource types in the API documentation. The requests are counted together if you make multiple requests to the same resource type but use different sub-resources. For example, if you make five requests to /v1/clusterprofiles and five requests to /v1/clusterprofiles/macros, the requests are counted together as ten requests to the resource clusterprofiles.

• If too many requests are issued, you may receive an error with HTTP code 429 - TooManyRequests. We recommend retrying the API call after a few moments.

Endpoint Prefix Rate

Endpoint Prefix	Request Per Second	Burst Size	Max with Burst
/v1/auth	10	5	50
/v1/nats	10	5	50
/v1/users	10	5	50
/v1/userprofiles	10	5	50
/v1/permissions	10	5	50
/v1/roles	10	5	50
/v1/teams	10	5	50
/v1/tenants	10	5	50
/v1/projects	10	5	50
/v1/plans	10	5	50
/v1/payments	10	5	50
/v1/audits	10	5	50
/v1/apiKeys	10	5	50
/v1/datasinks	10	5	50
/v1/notifications	10	5	50
/v1/events	10	5	50
/v1/crypto	10	5	50
/v1/async	10	5	50
/v1/errlogs	10	5	50
/v1/jobs	10	5	50
/v1/health	10	5	50
/v1/cache	10	5	50
/v1/cloudaccounts	10	5	50
/v1/packs	10	5	50
/v1/workspaces	10	5	50
/v1/installers	10	5	50
/v1/git/webhook	10	5	50
/v1/registries	10	5	50
/v1/services	10	5	50
/v1/overlords	10	5	50
/v1/cluster	10	5	50
/v1/cloudconfigs	10	5	50
/v1/cloudconfigs/{cloudType}/{uid}/machinePools	10	5	50
/v1/edgehosts	10	5	50
/v1/metrics	10	5	50
/v1/system	10	5	50
/v1/mgmt	10	5	50
/v1/oidc	10	5	50
/v1/clouds	10	5	50
/v1/events/components	10	5	50
/v1/dashboard	10	5	50
/v1/cloudconfigs/{cloudType}/:uid/machinePools/{machinePoolName}/\machines	10	5	50
/v1/cloudconfigs/{cloudType}/:uid/machinePools/{machinePoolName}/\machines/:machineUid	10	5	50
/v1/auth/authenticate	10	5	50
/v1/auth/services/login	10	5	50
/v1/auth/services/edge/login	10	5	50
/v1/files	10	5	50
/v1/edgehosts/registers	10	5	50
/v1/edgehosts/:uid/health	10	5	50
/v1/edgehosts/:uid/spc/download	10	5	50
/v1/spectroclusters/features/logFetcher	10	5	50
/v1/spectroclusters/:uid/assets	10	5	50
/v1/spectroclusters/cost	10	5	50
/v1/spectroclusters/usage	10	5	50
/v1/spectroclusters/:uid/download	10	5	50
/v1/spectroclusters/acquire	10	5	50
/v1/auth/user/password/reset	2	5	10
/v1/spectroclusters	50	5	250
/v1/clusterprofiles	50	5	250
/v1/clusterprofiles/:uid/packs	50	5	250
/v1/clusterprofiles/:uid/packs/manifests	50	5	250
/v1/clusterprofiles/:uid/packs/{packName}/manifests	50	5	250
/v1/clusterprofiles/validate/packs	50	5	250
/v1/clusterprofiles/:uid/validate/packs	50	5	250
/v1/spectroclusters/:uid/profiles	50	5	250