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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Oxide Region Snapshots API
description: API for interacting with the Oxide control plane
contact:
url: https://oxide.computer
email: api@oxide.computer
version: 2026081901.0.0
tags:
- name: Snapshots
description: Snapshots of virtual disks at a particular point in time.
externalDocs:
url: http://docs.oxide.computer/api/snapshots
paths:
/v1/snapshots:
get:
tags:
- Snapshots
summary: List snapshots
operationId: snapshot_list
parameters:
- in: query
name: limit
description: Maximum number of items returned by a single call
schema:
type:
- integer
- 'null'
format: uint32
minimum: 1
- in: query
name: page_token
description: Token returned by previous call to retrieve the subsequent page
schema:
type:
- string
- 'null'
- in: query
name: project
description: Name or ID of the project
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
- in: query
name: sort_by
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrIdSortMode'
responses:
'200':
description: successful operation
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SnapshotResultsPage'
4XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
5XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
x-dropshot-pagination:
required:
- project
post:
tags:
- Snapshots
summary: Create snapshot
description: Creates a point-in-time snapshot from a disk.
operationId: snapshot_create
parameters:
- in: query
name: project
description: Name or ID of the project
required: true
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SnapshotCreate'
required: true
responses:
'201':
description: successful creation
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Snapshot'
4XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
5XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
/v1/snapshots/{snapshot}:
get:
tags:
- Snapshots
summary: Fetch snapshot
operationId: snapshot_view
parameters:
- in: path
name: snapshot
description: Name or ID of the snapshot
required: true
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
- in: query
name: project
description: Name or ID of the project
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
responses:
'200':
description: successful operation
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Snapshot'
4XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
5XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
delete:
tags:
- Snapshots
summary: Delete snapshot
operationId: snapshot_delete
parameters:
- in: path
name: snapshot
description: Name or ID of the snapshot
required: true
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
- in: query
name: project
description: Name or ID of the project
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
responses:
'204':
description: successful deletion
4XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
5XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
components:
responses:
Error:
description: Error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
schemas:
ByteCount:
description: Byte count to express memory or storage capacity.
type: integer
format: uint64
minimum: 0
Snapshot:
description: View of a Snapshot
type: object
properties:
description:
description: Human-readable free-form text about a resource
type: string
disk_id:
type: string
format: uuid
id:
description: Unique, immutable, system-controlled identifier for each resource
type: string
format: uuid
name:
description: Unique, mutable, user-controlled identifier for each resource
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
project_id:
type: string
format: uuid
size:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ByteCount'
state:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SnapshotState'
time_created:
description: Timestamp when this resource was created
type: string
format: date-time
time_modified:
description: Timestamp when this resource was last modified
type: string
format: date-time
required:
- description
- disk_id
- id
- name
- project_id
- size
- state
- time_created
- time_modified
Name:
title: A name unique within the parent collection
description: Names must begin with a lower case ASCII letter, be composed exclusively of lowercase ASCII, uppercase ASCII, numbers, and '-', and may not end with a '-'. Names cannot be a UUID, but they may contain a UUID. They can be at most 63 characters long.
type: string
pattern: ^(?![0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$)^[a-z]([a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+)?$
minLength: 1
maxLength: 63
NameOrId:
oneOf:
- title: id
allOf:
- type: string
format: uuid
- title: name
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
Error:
description: Error information from a response.
type: object
properties:
error_code:
type: string
message:
type: string
request_id:
type: string
required:
- message
- request_id
SnapshotState:
type: string
enum:
- creating
- ready
- faulted
- destroyed
SnapshotCreate:
description: Create-time parameters for a `Snapshot`
type: object
properties:
description:
type: string
disk:
description: The disk to be snapshotted
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/NameOrId'
name:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
required:
- description
- disk
- name
SnapshotResultsPage:
description: A single page of results
type: object
properties:
items:
description: list of items on this page of results
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Snapshot'
next_page:
description: token used to fetch the next page of results (if any)
type:
- string
- 'null'
required:
- items
NameOrIdSortMode:
description: Supported set of sort modes for scanning by name or id
oneOf:
- description: Sort in increasing order of "name"
type: string
enum:
- name_ascending
- description: Sort in decreasing order of "name"
type: string
enum:
- name_descending
- description: Sort in increasing order of "id"
type: string
enum:
- id_ascending