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Red Hat Hosts API

Operations for managing hosts registered with Satellite, including provisioning, facts, and power management.

Red Hat Hosts API is one of 75 APIs that Red Hat publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

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

This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.6.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ansible-platform.example.com.

4 operations 2 paths 2 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2.6
Server
https://ansible-platform.example.com
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Red Hat Hosts API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 Bearer token for authenticating API requests to the automation controller.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Hosts 4

Operations for managing hosts registered with Satellite, including provisioning, facts, and power management.

GET
/api/v2/hosts
Red Hat List Hosts
listHosts 4 params → 200401
GET
/api/v2/hosts/{id}
Red Hat Get a Host
getHost 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/api/v2/hosts/{id}
Red Hat Update a Host
updateHost 1 param body → 200401404
DELETE
/api/v2/hosts/{id}
Red Hat Delete a Host
deleteHost 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Host (13 properties), PaginatedHostList (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PaginatedHostList
object
5 properties
Host
object
A host managed by Red Hat Satellite.
13 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

red-hat-hosts-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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