RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Provisioning a virtual machine instance

Consumer are allowed to provision IT resources on the Oracle Compute Cloud infrastructure service, using the LaunchPlans or Orchestration REST API. For this demonstration, we will use the LaunchPlans REST API. The details of the API are as follows:

API function	Launch plan used to provision infra resources in Oracle Compute Cloud Service.
Endpoint	<RESTEndpoint captured in above section>/launchplan/ Example: https://compute.eucom-north-1.oracleCloud.com/launchplan/
HTTP method	POST
Request header properties	Content-Type:application/oracle-compute-v3+json Accept: application/oracle-compute-v3+json          Cookie: <Authentication cookie>
Request body	instances: Array of ...