The Datacenter API

Overview
Datacenter API

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API Use Cases
• Internal
– The Datacenter API
– The Platform API
– SOA with APIs

• External
– B2B APIs
– Public APIs


The Datacenter API
• Optimize Utilization
• Gain Competitive
Advantage
• Ensure Flexibility
• Risk Management


Optimize Utilization
• Control and manage all the APIs exposed by your Datacenter
vendors
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Virtualization
Storage
Network
Security
Apps

• Create a Datacenter API Platform that is designed from the top
down
• Productize your Datacenter API Platform internally
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Market
Provision
Support
Analyze

• Promote the development of new Command & Control Apps to
optimize your Datacenter utilization


Gain Competitive Advantage
• Drive and support a culture of innovation on centered around
your Datacenter API Platform
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Social Developer Portal and API Storefront
Dynamic Documentation
Simplified provisioning
OAuth

• Build the next generation of ‘cloud-native’ applications that
are aware of, and can control, their environment
• Provide policies and controls that support innovation and
agility while reducing risk
– Consistent, Integrated API Security
– License and Quota Management
– Protection


Ensure Flexibility
• Ensure that your Datacenter API Platform is designed from
the top down
– Orchestrate API calls across the backend to simplify complex
control tasks
– Mediate the complexity associated with different security
mechanisms, API technologies and representations

• The Datacenter API must allow you to build cloud-native
applications that are abstracted from specific vendor
implementations
• Lower risk by decoupling your business and technology
processes


The Datacenter API


Cloud Infrastructure
• The Datacenter API platform provides a single API across all
your cloud providers
• Abstracts App developers from specific vendor
implementations
• Simplifies portability across cloud vendors
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Openstack
VMWare
EC2
Terremark eCloud
Rackspace


SDN
• The Datacenter API platform allows you to leverage a single
API across your Software Defined Network
• Abstracts developers from the underlying protocols –
OpenFlow, BGP-LS, etc
• Opens up the networking layer
– OpenDaylight Northbound API
– Floodlight API

URI
/wm/core/switch/all/<statType>/json
/wm/core/switch/<switchId>/<statType>/json
/wm/core/controller/switches/json
/wm/core/counter/<counterTitle>/json
/wm/core/counter/<switchId>/<counterName>/json
/wm/core/memory/json
/wm/topology/links/json
/wm/topology/switchclusters/json
/wm/topology/route/<switchIdA>/<portA>/<switchIdB>/<
portB>/json
/wm/device/

Description
Retrieve aggregate stats across all switches
Retrieve per switch stats
List of all switch DPIDs connected to the controller
List of global traffic counters in the controller
List of traffic counters per switch
Current controller memory usage
List all the inter-switch links.
List of all switch clusters connected to the controller.
List shortest path route, if available, from <switch, port> A
to <switch, port> B.
List of all devices tracked by the controller.


Storage/Content
• The Datacenter API platform allows you to abstract
storage behind a single API
• Encourages the development of cloud-native
applications
• Provides options for scaling and global distribution
• Supports multiple storage systems:
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Filesystem
Database
FTP
Amazon S3 / CloudFront
Rackspace Cloud Files
Akamai


SOA Software’s
API Platform


API Platform
Analytics

• Measure the impact of
your programs

Developer
Engagement

• Build your developer
and partner ecosystem

Gateway Services

• Secure and protect
your systems

Service
Integration

• Simplify and speed up
development

Lifecycle
Management

• Build the right services
& APIs the right way


Program Management
• Build new Apps the right
way
– Incorporate planning and
design in the platform

• Best practices and
templates
– Scale your development
practices

• Versioning and Change
Management
– Control, inform and reduce
risk

• Approvals and workflow
– Build what you want when
you want it


Lifecycle Manager


Service Integration
• Simplify and speed up
development
– Create APIs from back-end
systems without coding

• Process Composition
– Improved time to market

• Drag & Drop editor
– Easy to use

• Native JavaScript engine
– Rapid prototyping and
sandbox development


Gateway Services
• Secure and protect
your systems
– Trusted partner
– Comprehensive outof-the-box policies

• Security
– Enable new channels

• Attack Prevention
– Protect your systems
from abuse

• Caching and Paging
– Support mobile
devices

• QoS Management
– Protect relationships


Gateway Services


Developer Engagement
• Build your developer
and partner ecosystem
– Social Platform
supporting B2D, B2E
and B2B

• Self-service community
– Promote innovation
– Lower support costs

• Interactive Docs
– Increase adoption

• App Provisioning
– Gain visibility and
control

• Integrated Testing
– Speed up learning


Analytics
• Measure the impact of
your program
– Adoption
– Speed of
development

• API & App Monitoring
– Provide visibility into
performance and
consumption
– Give developers the
ability to debug their
Apps

• Ad-Hoc Analytics
– Measure business
impact


Developer Engagement
• Publish and Share your Datacenter API across your
organization
• Encourage a mind-set of ‘Productization’ for the API
• Move the center of gravity from a culture of integration to a
culture of adoption


Community Manager
• A social developer engagement
platform
• Integrated API documentation
• App access provisioning and
monitoring
• Integrated discussion and newsfeeds
• Trouble ticket management
• Search with full content indexing
• API and App privacy and group
management – essential for B2B and
partner APIs
• Federation to enable new business
models


Unified Gateway
• Unified SOA and API management
& security
• Massively scalable, highperformance
• Comprehensive security
– Widest range of tokens supported
for authentication, including:
Kerberos, SAML, X.509 and many
more
– Built-in PKI and key distribution
model
– Denial-of-service attack
prevention

• Policy driven & centrally managed
– Security, QoS, Routing, DoS


In the Cloud or On-Premise


Conclusion
• Lets developers and administrators tap into
datacenter resources through APIs
• Creates an API-driven, software-defined data
center
• Builds infrastructure flexibility that avoids
vendor lock-in
• Enables cloud-native applications


The Datacenter API

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