REST API Version History

This documents the changes made to the REST API with every microversion change. The description for each version should be a verbose one which has enough information to be suitable for use in user documentation.

2.1

This is the initial version of the v2.1 API which supports microversions. The V2.1 API is from the REST API users’s point of view exactly the same as v2.0 except with strong input validation.

A user can specify a header in the API request:

X-OpenStack-Nova-API-Version: <version>

where <version> is any valid api version for this API.

If no version is specified then the API will behave as if a version request of v2.1 was requested.

2.2

Added Keypair type.

A user can request the creation of a certain ‘type’ of keypair (ssh or x509) in the os-keypairs plugin

If no keypair type is specified, then the default ssh type of keypair is created.

Fixes status code for os-keypairs create method from 200 to 201

Fixes status code for os-keypairs delete method from 202 to 204

2.3 (Maximum in Kilo)

Exposed additional attributes in os-extended-server-attributes: reservation_id, launch_index, ramdisk_id, kernel_id, hostname, root_device_name, userdata.

Exposed delete_on_termination for volumes_attached in os-extended-volumes.

This change is required for the extraction of EC2 API into a standalone service. It exposes necessary properties absent in public nova APIs yet. Add info for Standalone EC2 API to cut access to Nova DB.

2.4

Show the reserved status on a FixedIP object in the os-fixed-ips API extension. The extension allows one to reserve and unreserve a fixed IP but the show method does not report the current status.

2.5

Before version 2.5, the command nova list --ip6 xxx returns all servers for non-admins, as the filter option is silently discarded. There is no reason to treat ip6 different from ip, though, so we just add this option to the allowed list.

2.6

A new API for getting remote console is added:

POST /servers/<uuid>/remote-consoles
{
  "remote_console": {
    "protocol": ["vnc"|"rdp"|"serial"|"spice"],
    "type": ["novnc"|"xpvnc"|"rdp-html5"|"spice-html5"|"serial"]
  }
}

Example response:

{
  "remote_console": {
    "protocol": "vnc",
    "type": "novnc",
    "url": "http://example.com:6080/vnc_auto.html?token=XYZ"
  }
}

The old APIs ‘os-getVNCConsole’, ‘os-getSPICEConsole’, ‘os-getSerialConsole’ and ‘os-getRDPConsole’ are removed.

2.7

Check the is_public attribute of a flavor before adding tenant access to it. Reject the request with HTTPConflict error.

2.8

Add ‘mks’ protocol and ‘webmks’ type for remote consoles.

2.9

Add a new locked attribute to the detailed view of servers. locked will be true if anyone is currently holding a lock on the server, false otherwise.

2.10

Added user_id parameter to os-keypairs plugin, as well as a new property in the request body, for the create operation.

Administrators will be able to list, get details and delete keypairs owned by users other than themselves and to create new keypairs on behalf of their users.

2.11

Exposed attribute forced_down for os-services. Added ability to change the forced_down attribute by calling an update.

2.12 (Maximum in Liberty)

Exposes VIF net_id attribute in os-virtual-interfaces. User will be able to get Virtual Interfaces net_id in Virtual Interfaces list and can determine in which network a Virtual Interface is plugged into.

2.13

Add information project_id and user_id to os-server-groups API response data.

2.14

Remove onSharedStorage parameter from server’s evacuate action. Nova will automatically detect if the instance is on shared storage. Also adminPass is removed from the response body. The user can get the password with the server’s os-server-password action.

2.15

From this version of the API users can choose ‘soft-affinity’ and ‘soft-anti-affinity’ rules too for server-groups.

2.16

Exposes new host_status attribute for servers/detail and servers/{server_id}. Ability to get nova-compute status when querying servers. By default, this is only exposed to cloud administrators.

2.17

Add a new API for triggering crash dump in an instance. Different operation systems in instance may need different configurations to trigger crash dump.

2.18

Establishes a set of routes that makes project_id an optional construct in v2.1.

2.19

Allow the user to set and get the server description. The user will be able to set the description when creating, rebuilding, or updating a server, and get the description as part of the server details.

2.20

From this version of the API user can call detach and attach volumes for instances which are in shelved and shelved_offloaded state.

2.21

The os-instance-actions API now returns information from deleted instances.

2.22

A new resource servers:migrations added. A new API to force live migration to complete added:

POST /servers/<uuid>/migrations/<id>/action
{
  "force_complete": null
}

2.23

From this version of the API users can get the migration summary list by index API or the information of a specific migration by get API. And the old top-level resource /os-migrations won’t be extended anymore. Add migration_type for old /os-migrations API, also add ref link to the /servers/{uuid}/migrations/{id} for it when the migration is an in-progress live-migration.

2.24

A new API call to cancel a running live migration:

DELETE /servers/<uuid>/migrations/<id>

2.25

Modify input parameter for os-migrateLive. The block_migration will support ‘auto’ value, and disk_over_commit flag will be removed.