Packet Host OperatingSystems API
Operating System Management. Check out the product docs to learn more about [Operating Systems choices](https://metal.equinix.com/developers/docs/operating-systems/).
Operating System Management. Check out the product docs to learn more about [Operating Systems choices](https://metal.equinix.com/developers/docs/operating-systems/).
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
contact:
email: support@equinixmetal.com
name: Equinix Metal API Team
description: '# Introduction
Equinix Metal provides a RESTful HTTP API which can be reached at .'
license:
name: Equinix Metal
url: https://metal.equinix.com/legal/
termsOfService: https://metal.equinix.com/legal/
title: Metal Operating Systems API
version: 1.0.0
servers:
- url: https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1
security:
- x_auth_token: []
tags:
- description: Operating System Management. Check out the product docs to learn more about Operating Systems choices.
externalDocs:
url: https://metal.equinix.com/developers/docs/operating-systems/supported/
name: OperatingSystems
paths:
/operating-system-versions:
get:
description: Provides a listing of available operating system versions.
operationId: findOperatingSystemVersion
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/OperatingSystemList'
description: ok
'401':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
description: unauthorized
summary: Retrieve all operating system versions
tags:
- OperatingSystems
/operating-systems:
get:
description: Provides a listing of available operating systems to provision your new device with.
operationId: findOperatingSystems
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/OperatingSystemList'
description: ok
'401':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
description: unauthorized
summary: Retrieve all operating systems
tags:
- OperatingSystems
components:
schemas:
Error:
description: Error responses are included with 4xx and 5xx HTTP responses from the API service. Either "error" or "errors" will be set.
properties:
error:
description: A description of the error that caused the request to fail.
type: string
errors:
description: A list of errors that contributed to the request failing.
items:
description: An error message that contributed to the request failing.
type: string
type: array
type: object
OperatingSystem:
example:
default_operating_system: true
distro: distro
preinstallable: true
licensed: true
name: name
id: 046b6c7f-0b8a-43b9-b35d-6489e6daee91
provisionable_on:
- provisionable_on
- provisionable_on
version: version
pricing: '{}'
slug: slug
distro_label: distro_label
properties:
distro:
type: string
distro_label:
type: string
id:
format: uuid
type: string
licensed:
description: Licenced OS is priced according to pricing property
type: boolean
name:
type: string
preinstallable:
description: Servers can be already preinstalled with OS in order to shorten provision time.
type: boolean
pricing:
description: This object contains price per time unit and optional multiplier value if licence price depends on hardware plan or components (e.g. number of cores)
type: object
provisionable_on:
items:
type: string
type: array
slug:
type: string
version:
type: string
default_operating_system:
description: Default operating system for the distro.
readOnly: true
type: boolean
type: object
OperatingSystemList:
example:
operating_systems:
- default_operating_system: true
distro: distro
preinstallable: true
licensed: true
name: name
id: 046b6c7f-0b8a-43b9-b35d-6489e6daee91
provisionable_on:
- provisionable_on
- provisionable_on
version: version
pricing: '{}'
slug: slug
distro_label: distro_label
- default_operating_system: true
distro: distro
preinstallable: true
licensed: true
name: name
id: 046b6c7f-0b8a-43b9-b35d-6489e6daee91
provisionable_on:
- provisionable_on
- provisionable_on
version: version
pricing: '{}'
slug: slug
distro_label: distro_label
properties:
operating_systems:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/OperatingSystem'
type: array
type: object
securitySchemes:
x_auth_token:
description: 'HTTP header containing the User or Project API key that will be used to authenticate the request.
'
in: header
name: X-Auth-Token
type: apiKey
x-displayName: X-Auth-Token
x-tagGroups:
- name: Accounts and Organization
tags:
- Authentication
- Emails
- Invitations
- Memberships
- Organizations
- OTPs
- PasswordResetTokens
- PaymentMethods
- Projects
- SSHKeys
- SupportRequest
- TransferRequests
- TwoFactorAuth
- Users
- UserVerificationTokens
- name: Services and Billing
tags:
- Events
- Facilities
- Incidents
- Invoices
- Licenses
- Metros
- Plans
- Usages
- name: Servers
tags:
- Devices
- Batches
- Capacity
- HardwareReservations
- OperatingSystems
- Ports
- SelfServiceReservations
- SpotMarket
- Userdata
- Volumes
- name: Networking
tags:
- BGP
- Interconnections
- IPAddresses
- MetalGateways
- VLANs
- VRFs