Describes the purpose of the Cloud APIs and CLI and describes each one.
These APIs and CLI offer a way for cloud users to programmatically manage allocated virtual resources in a vDC account, providing the ability to create and manage virtual servers (vServers) to deploy applications in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) mode. This guide provides information about:
Cloud infrastructure API: A programmatic Web service interface for managing virtual datacenter (vDC) resources allocated in vDC accounts. This API is also referred to simply as Web service in this guide.
Cloud infrastructure Java client API: A Java client API for interacting with the Web service interface. This API is also referred to simply as Java client API in this guide.
Cloud infrastructure CLI: A Java-based command-line interface that wraps the cloud infrastructure Java client API with simple scripts. It is also referred to simply as CLI in this guide.