Firecracker Network Interfaces API

The Network Interfaces API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for network interfaces.

Operations 2

PUT /network-interfaces/{iface_id} Creates a network interface. Pre-boot only. #
PATCH /network-interfaces/{iface_id} Updates the rate limiters applied to a network interface. Post-boot only. #

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OpenAPI Specification

firecracker-network-interfaces-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Firecracker Actions Network Interfaces API
  description: RESTful public-facing API. The API is accessible through HTTP calls on specific URLs carrying JSON modeled data. The transport medium is a Unix Domain Socket.
  version: 1.16.0-dev
  termsOfService: ''
  contact:
    email: firecracker-maintainers@amazon.com
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
servers:
- url: http://localhost/
tags:
- name: Network Interfaces
paths:
  /network-interfaces/{iface_id}:
    put:
      summary: Creates a network interface. Pre-boot only.
      description: Creates new network interface with ID specified by iface_id path parameter.
      operationId: putGuestNetworkInterfaceByID
      parameters:
      - name: iface_id
        in: path
        description: The id of the guest network interface
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        204:
          description: Network interface created/updated
        400:
          description: Network interface cannot be created due to bad input
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        default:
          description: Internal server error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      tags:
      - Network Interfaces
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/NetworkInterface'
        description: Guest network interface properties
        required: true
    patch:
      summary: Updates the rate limiters applied to a network interface. Post-boot only.
      description: Updates the rate limiters applied to a network interface.
      operationId: patchGuestNetworkInterfaceByID
      parameters:
      - name: iface_id
        in: path
        description: The id of the guest network interface
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        204:
          description: Network interface updated
        400:
          description: Network interface cannot be updated due to bad input
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        default:
          description: Internal server error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      tags:
      - Network Interfaces
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PartialNetworkInterface'
        description: A subset of the guest network interface properties
        required: true
components:
  schemas:
    TokenBucket:
      type: object
      description: Defines a token bucket with a maximum capacity (size), an initial burst size (one_time_burst) and an interval for refilling purposes (refill_time). The refill-rate is derived from size and refill_time, and it is the constant rate at which the tokens replenish. The refill process only starts happening after the initial burst budget is consumed. Consumption from the token bucket is unbounded in speed which allows for bursts bound in size by the amount of tokens available. Once the token bucket is empty, consumption speed is bound by the refill_rate.
      required:
      - refill_time
      - size
      properties:
        one_time_burst:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The initial size of a token bucket.
          minimum: 0
        refill_time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The amount of milliseconds it takes for the bucket to refill.
          minimum: 0
        size:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The total number of tokens this bucket can hold.
          minimum: 0
    PartialNetworkInterface:
      type: object
      description: Defines a partial network interface structure, used to update the rate limiters for that interface, after microvm start.
      required:
      - iface_id
      properties:
        iface_id:
          type: string
        rx_rate_limiter:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimiter'
        tx_rate_limiter:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimiter'
    NetworkInterface:
      type: object
      description: Defines a network interface.
      required:
      - host_dev_name
      - iface_id
      properties:
        guest_mac:
          type: string
        host_dev_name:
          type: string
          description: Host level path for the guest network interface
        iface_id:
          type: string
        rx_rate_limiter:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimiter'
        tx_rate_limiter:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimiter'
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        fault_message:
          type: string
          description: A description of the error condition
          readOnly: true
    RateLimiter:
      type: object
      description: Defines an IO rate limiter with independent bytes/s and ops/s limits. Limits are defined by configuring each of the _bandwidth_ and _ops_ token buckets. This field is optional for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration.
      properties:
        bandwidth:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenBucket'
          description: Token bucket with bytes as tokens
        ops:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenBucket'
          description: Token bucket with operations as tokens