# OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/openstack/heat/  
**Provider:** OpenStack — https://apis.io/providers/openstack/  
**Base URL:** https://{heat-host}/heat-api/v1  
**Documentation:** https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/orchestration/

OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) API is one of 22 APIs that [OpenStack](https://apis.io/providers/openstack/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Orchestration and Infrastructure as Code. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Heat is the OpenStack orchestration service that manages infrastructure-as-code deployments via HOT (Heat Orchestration Template) and AWS CloudFormation-compatible templates. The API exposes endpoints for stacks, resources, events, software configs, and template validation.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/orchestration/
- **Documentation** — https://docs.openstack.org/heat/

## Other OpenStack APIs (12)

- [OpenStack Networking (Neutron) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/neutron/)
- [OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/cinder/)
- [OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/swift/)
- [OpenStack Image (Glance) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/glance/)
- [OpenStack Load Balancer (Octavia) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/octavia/)
- [OpenStack DNS (Designate) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/designate/)
- [OpenStack Database (Trove) API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/trove/)
- [OpenStack Domains API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/openstack-domains-api/)
- [OpenStack Endpoints API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/openstack-endpoints-api/)
- [OpenStack Flavors API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/openstack-flavors-api/)
- [OpenStack Groups API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/openstack-groups-api/)
- [OpenStack Images API](https://apis.io/apis/openstack/openstack-images-api/)

## Tags

Orchestration, Infrastructure as Code

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