The Security Groups extension lets you view, create, and remove security groups for instances plus set rules for security groups using the OpenStack Compute API 1.1.
To obtain current information the extensions available to you, issue an EXTENSION query on the OpenStack system where it is installed, such as http://mycloud.com/v1.1/tenant/extensions.
As shown below, responses to an EXTENSION query in XML or JSON provide basic information about the extension.
Extension Query Response: XML:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 3295
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:06:55 GMT
<extensions xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://docs.openstack.org/compute/api/v1.1">
<extension name="SecurityGroups" namespace="http://docs.openstack.org/ext/securitygroups/api/v1.1" alias="security_groups" updated="2011-07-21T00:00:00+00:00"><description>Security group support</description></extension>
</extensions>
Extension Query Response: JSON:
{"extensions": [{"updated": "2011-07-21T00:00:00+00:00", "name": "SecurityGroups", "links": [], "namespace": "http://docs.openstack.org/ext/securitygroups/api/v1.1", "alias": "security_groups", "description": "Security group support"}]}
Revision Date | Summary of Changes |
2011-09-16 | Initial draft |
2012-03-30 | Reformat of content |
This extension to the Compute API allows you to create, update, and delete security groups.
This support is provided by the addition of new actions.
os-security-group
os-security-group-rules
Include the response codes, transitions if applicable, and XML and JSON examples.
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List the specific changes to the API. For example:
In section 4.1.1 (List Servers) of the Cloud Servers Specification: Examples 4.1 and 4.2 should be replaced with Example 2.7 and Example 2.8 below.
Provide examples in XML and JSON