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Cilium Prefilter API

XDP prefilter CIDR management

Cilium Prefilter API is one of 11 APIs that Cilium publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Prefilter. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and a changelog.

This API exposes 3 operations across 1 path, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1beta1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, http://localhost/v1.

3 operations 1 paths 4 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET1 PATCH

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v1beta1
Base URL
https://localhost/v1
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 3

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 3 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 1 PATCH. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Prefilter 3

XDP prefilter CIDR management

GET
/prefilter
Cilium Get prefilter configuration
getPrefilterConfig → 200500
PATCH
/prefilter
Cilium Update prefilter configuration
patchPrefilterConfig body → 200400500
DELETE
/prefilter
Cilium Delete prefilter entries
deletePrefilterConfig body → 200400500

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PrefilterStatus (2 properties), Prefilter (2 properties), PrefilterSpec (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PrefilterSpec
object
Prefilter CIDR list specification.
2 properties
Prefilter
object
XDP prefilter configuration and statistics.
2 properties
PrefilterStatus
object
Current state of the XDP prefilter.
2 properties
Error
string
Human-readable error message.

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

cilium-prefilter-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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