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Don't Sleep on RESTful APIs for vSphere

Kyle Ruddy, VMware, Inc.

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Agenda

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Introduction

RESTful API Overview

vSphere RESTful APIs

Discovery and Documentation

Developer and Automation Tooling

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Speaker Introduction

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Senior Technical Marketing EngineerKyle Ruddy

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RESTful API Overview

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RESTful API Overview

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vSphere RESTful APIs

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vSphere RESTful APIs

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Discovery and Documentation

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Scenario 3 - Overview

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Developer and Automation Tooling

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Developer and Automation ToolingOverview

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vSphere Automation SDKsOpen-Sourced SDKs to Interact with vSphere RESTful API Available on GitHub

VMware maintained

Get up & running in less than 5 minutes!

SDKs for managing vSphere REST APIand VMware Cloud on AWS

Available in languages such as:

Full of Samples

Community Contributions Welcome

• REST• Python• Java

• Perl• .NET• Ruby

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PowerCLI – CIS Module

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Datacenter CLI

Accessible via:• vSphere CLI Installation Package• VCSA shell• Windows vCenter Server Command Prompt

Interactive Shell Mode• Supports Tab Completion• Commands Cached at the Endpoint• Saves History Across Sessions

Scripting Mode• Create Bash scripts to run the same

commands from interactive mode

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