November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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Provisioning IT resources using RESTful APIs
Oracle provides various REST APIs for creating and managing IT resources in the cloud infrastructure.
Refer to http://docs.oracle.com/en/Cloud/iaas/compute-iaas-Cloud/stcsa/index.html for details of REST APIs available for the Oracle IaaS cloud offering.
For example, we will try to set up a test virtual machine instance using the REST APIs. The high-level steps required to be performed are as follows:
- Locate REST API endpoint
- Generate authentication cookie
- Provision virtual machine instance