Cycloid Cost Estimation API

Operations related to estimating cost of infrastructure.

Operations 2

POST /organizations/{organization_canonical}/cost_estimation/tfplan Cost estimate tf plan #
POST /organizations/{organization_canonical}/projects/{project_canonical}/environments/{environment_canonical}/forms/estimate Cost estimate form #

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OpenAPI Specification

cycloid-cost-estimation-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: This is the Cycloid's API Reference. It provides descriptions, syntax, and usage examples for each of the actions and data types available within our console.
  title: Welcome! Cost Estimation API
  termsOfService: https://console.cycloid.io/terms
  contact:
    name: The Great Owl
    url: https://www.cycloid.io
    email: contact@cycloid.io
  license:
    name: Cycloid @copyrights
    url: https://cycloid.io
  version: '0'
servers:
- url: https://http-api.cycloid.io
security:
- api_key: []
- api_key_query: []
tags:
- description: Operations related to estimating cost of infrastructure.
  name: Cost Estimation
paths:
  /organizations/{organization_canonical}/cost_estimation/tfplan:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organization_canonical'
    post:
      description: Estimate costs of a Terraform plan in JSON format.
      tags:
      - Cost Estimation
      operationId: costEstimateTfPlan
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The result of estimating the costs of a Terraform plan.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - data
                properties:
                  data:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostEstimationResult'
              example:
                data:
                  name: my-infrastructure-plan
                  planned_cost: '54.31'
                  planned_hourly_cost: '0.0744'
                  prior_cost: '0'
                  prior_hourly_cost: '0'
                  resource_estimates:
                  - address: aws_instance.web_server
                    components:
                    - label: Instance usage (Linux/UNIX, on-demand, t3.medium)
                      rate: '0.0416'
                      unit: hour
                      usage: false
                    - label: CPU credits
                      rate: '0.05'
                      unit: vCPU-hour
                      usage: true
                    image: /static/images/aws/ec2.svg
                    planned_cost: '30.37'
                    planned_hourly_cost: '0.0416'
                    prior_cost: '0'
                    prior_hourly_cost: '0'
                    provider: aws
                    type: aws_instance
                  - address: aws_db_instance.database
                    components:
                    - label: Database instance (on-demand, db.t3.micro)
                      rate: '0.017'
                      unit: hour
                      usage: false
                    - label: Storage (general purpose SSD, gp2)
                      rate: '0.115'
                      unit: GB-month
                      usage: false
                    image: /static/images/aws/rds.svg
                    planned_cost: '23.94'
                    planned_hourly_cost: '0.0328'
                    prior_cost: '0'
                    prior_hourly_cost: '0'
                    provider: aws
                    type: aws_db_instance
                  skipped_resource_addresses:
                  - random_id.server
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/not_enough_permissions'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unprocessable_entity'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unexpected_error'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/vnd.cycloid.io.v1+json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TerraformPlanInput'
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TerraformPlanInput'
        required: true
      summary: Cost estimate tf plan
      x-summary-source: derived
  /organizations/{organization_canonical}/projects/{project_canonical}/environments/{environment_canonical}/forms/estimate:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organization_canonical'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/project_canonical'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/environment_canonical'
    post:
      description: Estimates the Cost from the Form Input
      tags:
      - Cost Estimation
      operationId: costEstimateForm
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The result of estimating the costs of a environment.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - data
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostEstimationResult'
              example:
                data:
                - info: some potential info here
                  name: some name
                  planned_cost: '30.252'
                  planned_hourly_cost: '0.04144'
                  prior_cost: '10.544'
                  prior_hourly_cost: '0.01444'
                  resource_estimates:
                  - address: aws_instance.example
                    components:
                    - label: Compute
                      planned:
                        cost: '5.00'
                        hourly_cost: '0.00685'
                        quantity: 1
                      prior:
                        cost: '5.00'
                        hourly_cost: '0.00685'
                        quantity: 1
                    - label: Storage
                      planned:
                        cost: '25.252'
                        hourly_cost: '0.03459'
                        quantity: 150
                      prior:
                        cost: '5.544'
                        hourly_cost: '0.00759'
                        quantity: 30
                    planned_cost: '30.252'
                    planned_hourly_cost: '0.04144'
                    prior_cost: '10.544'
                    prior_hourly_cost: '0.01444'
                    provider: aws
                    type: aws_instance
                - info: some potential info here
                  name: some 2
                  planned_cost: '30.252'
                  planned_hourly_cost: '0.04144'
                  prior_cost: '10.544'
                  prior_hourly_cost: '0.01444'
                  resource_estimates:
                  - address: aws_instance.example
                    components:
                    - label: Compute
                      planned:
                        cost: '5.00'
                        hourly_cost: '0.00685'
                        quantity: 1
                      prior:
                        cost: '5.00'
                        hourly_cost: '0.00685'
                        quantity: 1
                    - label: Storage
                      planned:
                        cost: '25.252'
                        hourly_cost: '0.03459'
                        quantity: 150
                      prior:
                        cost: '5.544'
                        hourly_cost: '0.00759'
                        quantity: 30
                    planned_cost: '30.252'
                    planned_hourly_cost: '0.04144'
                    prior_cost: '10.544'
                    prior_hourly_cost: '0.01444'
                    provider: aws
                    type: aws_instance
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/not_enough_permissions'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unprocessable_entity'
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unexpected_error'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/vnd.cycloid.io.v1+json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - service_catalog_ref
              - use_case
              - component_canonical
              - vars
              properties:
                component_canonical:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 100
                  minLength: 1
                  pattern: ^[\da-zA-Z]+(?:(?:[\da-zA-Z\-._]+)?[\da-zA-Z])?$
                service_catalog_ref:
                  description: It's the ref of the Stack, like 'cycloidio:stack-magento'
                  type: string
                service_catalog_source_version_id:
                  description: Is the ID of the new SCS Version used
                  type: integer
                  format: uint32
                  minimum: 1
                use_case:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 100
                  minLength: 1
                  pattern: (^[a-z0-9]+(([a-z0-9\-_]+)?[a-z0-9]+)?$)
                vars:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/FormVariables'
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - service_catalog_ref
              - use_case
              - component_canonical
              - vars
              properties:
                component_canonical:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 100
                  minLength: 1
                  pattern: ^[\da-zA-Z]+(?:(?:[\da-zA-Z\-._]+)?[\da-zA-Z])?$
                service_catalog_ref:
                  description: It's the ref of the Stack, like 'cycloidio:stack-magento'
                  type: string
                service_catalog_source_version_id:
                  description: Is the ID of the new SCS Version used
                  type: integer
                  format: uint32
                  minimum: 1
                use_case:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 100
                  minLength: 1
                  pattern: (^[a-z0-9]+(([a-z0-9\-_]+)?[a-z0-9]+)?$)
                vars:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/FormVariables'
        description: The information of the filled form for a new project environment.
        required: true
      summary: Cost estimate form
      x-summary-source: derived
components:
  responses:
    unprocessable_entity:
      description: All the custom errors that are generated from the Cycloid API
      headers:
        Content-Length:
          description: The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes).
          schema:
            type: integer
            format: uint64
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorPayload'
          example:
            errors:
            - code: SomeCode
              message: some error
    not_enough_permissions:
      description: The authenticated user cannot perform the operation because, it doesn't have permissions for such operation.
      headers:
        Content-Length:
          description: The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes).
          schema:
            type: integer
            format: uint64
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorPayload'
          example:
            errors:
            - code: Unauthorized
              message: Not enough permissions to perform the operation
    unexpected_error:
      description: The response sent when an unexpected error happened, as known as an internal server error.
      headers:
        Content-Length:
          description: The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes).
          schema:
            type: integer
            format: uint64
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorPayload'
          example:
            errors:
            - code: Unexpected
              message: Server Internal error
  schemas:
    ErrorDetailsItem:
      description: Represents an item of the list of details of an error.
      title: Error details item
      required:
      - message
      - code
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        details:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        message:
          type: string
    TerraformPlanInput:
      description: Input for endpoints that require a Terraform plan.
      title: TerraformPlanInput
      required:
      - tfplan
      properties:
        tfplan:
          description: 'Terraform plan file in escaped JSON format. See more: https://www.terraform.io/internals/json-format'
          type: string
    CostEstimationComponentState:
      description: Either a Prior or Planned cost component state.
      title: CostEstimationComponentState
      required:
      - quantity
      - details
      - cost
      - hourly_cost
      properties:
        cost:
          description: Monthly cost of the component state in decimal form.
          type: string
        details:
          description: List of items on which the cost is dependent.
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        hourly_cost:
          description: Hourly cost of the component state in decimal form.
          type: string
        quantity:
          description: Quantity of units.
          type: integer
          format: uint32
    CostEstimationResourceEstimate:
      description: Estimate for a single cloud resource.
      title: CostEstimationResourceEstimate
      required:
      - provider
      - type
      - address
      - components
      properties:
        address:
          description: Unique identifier of the resource.
          type: string
        components:
          description: List of resource cost components.
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostEstimationComponent'
        image:
          description: Path to the image of the resource
          type: string
          format: uri
        planned_cost:
          description: Planned monthly cost of the resource estimate in decimal form.
          type: string
        planned_hourly_cost:
          description: Planned hourly cost of the resource estimate in decimal form.
          type: string
        prior_cost:
          description: Prior monthly cost of the resource estimate in decimal form.
          type: string
        prior_hourly_cost:
          description: Prior hourly cost of the resource estimate in decimal form.
          type: string
        provider:
          description: The resource's cloud provider.
          type: string
        type:
          description: Type of the resource.
          type: string
    CostEstimationResult:
      description: The result of cost estimation.
      title: CostEstimationResult
      required:
      - resource_estimates
      properties:
        info:
          description: Extra details regarding estimation - usually related to no known resources, unknown providers, etc.
          type: string
        name:
          description: Name of the current estimation
          type: string
        planned_cost:
          description: Planned monthly cost of the plan in decimal form.
          type: string
        planned_hourly_cost:
          description: Planned hourly cost of the plan in decimal form.
          type: string
        prior_cost:
          description: Prior monthly cost of the plan in decimal form.
          type: string
        prior_hourly_cost:
          description: Prior hourly cost of the plan in decimal form.
          type: string
        resource_estimates:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostEstimationResourceEstimate'
        skipped_resource_addresses:
          description: 'A list of addresses of resources that were skipped from the estimation process. A resource might be skipped

            due to being invalid or unsupported by Terracost.

            '
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
    CostEstimationComponent:
      description: Cost component of a cloud resource estimate.
      title: CostEstimationComponent
      required:
      - label
      - rate
      properties:
        label:
          description: Human-readable label of the component.
          type: string
        planned:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostEstimationComponentState'
        prior:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CostEstimationComponentState'
        rate:
          description: Monthly rate per unit.
          type: string
        unit:
          description: Unit of estimation.
          type: string
        usage:
          description: If the price is from usage or configuration
          type: boolean
    FormVariables:
      description: "Forms variables filled, the format to respect is as follows\n{\n  \"sectionX\": {\n    \"group1\": {\n      \"key1\": \"value1\",\n      \"key2\": \"value2\",\n      \"key3\": \"value3\"\n    },\n  },\n  \"sectionY\": {\n    \"group2\": {\n      \"key1\": \"value1\",\n      \"key2\": \"value2\",\n      \"key3\": \"value3\"\n    },\n  },\n  \"sectionZ\": {\n    \"group3\": {\n      \"key1\": \"value2\"\n    },\n  }\n}\nKeys being the variable name that you want to see substituted/defined,\nwhile the section and group are the one from the form's file.\n"
      type: object
      additionalProperties:
        type: object
        additionalProperties:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: object
    ErrorPayload:
      description: 'The payload used by the server to response to the client with an Error, those errors could be any of the ones listed [here](https://github.com/cycloidio/youdeploy-http-api/blob/develop/errors/code.go#L10), only the CODE of the error is the one that is guaranteed to not change between the same major version, the MESSAGE could change.

        '
      title: Error Payload
      required:
      - errors
      properties:
        errors:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorDetailsItem'
        request_id:
          type: string
  parameters:
    organization_canonical:
      description: A canonical of an organization.
      name: organization_canonical
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        maxLength: 100
        minLength: 2
        pattern: ^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9\-_]*[a-z0-9])?$
    environment_canonical:
      description: The environment canonical to use as part of a path
      name: environment_canonical
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        maxLength: 100
        minLength: 1
        pattern: ^[\da-zA-Z]+(?:(?:[\da-zA-Z\-._]+)?[\da-zA-Z])?$
    project_canonical:
      description: A canonical of a project.
      name: project_canonical
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        maxLength: 100
        minLength: 1
        pattern: ^[\da-zA-Z]+(?:(?:[\da-zA-Z\-._]+)?[\da-zA-Z])?$
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      description: The API authorization is done with JWT tokens
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header
    api_key_query:
      description: The API authorization is done with JWT tokens in the query string
      type: apiKey
      name: api_key
      in: query