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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
contact:
email: info@portainer.io
description: 'Portainer API is an HTTP API served by Portainer. It is used by the Portainer UI and everything you can do with the UI can be done using the HTTP API.
Examples are available at https://documentation.portainer.io/api/api-examples/
You can find out more about Portainer at [http://portainer.io](http://portainer.io) and get some support on [Slack](http://portainer.io/slack/).
# Authentication
Most of the API environments(endpoints) require to be authenticated as well as some level of authorization to be used.
Portainer API uses JSON Web Token to manage authentication and thus requires you to provide a token in the **Authorization** header of each request
with the **Bearer** authentication mechanism.
Example:
```
Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6MSwidXNlcm5hbWUiOiJhZG1pbiIsInJvbGUiOjEsImV4cCI6MTQ5OTM3NjE1NH0.NJ6vE8FY1WG6jsRQzfMqeatJ4vh2TWAeeYfDhP71YEE
```
# Security
Each API environment(endpoint) has an associated access policy, it is documented in the description of each environment(endpoint).
Different access policies are available:
- Public access
- Authenticated access
- Restricted access
- Administrator access
### Public access
No authentication is required to access the environments(endpoints) with this access policy.
### Authenticated access
Authentication is required to access the environments(endpoints) with this access policy.
### Restricted access
Authentication is required to access the environments(endpoints) with this access policy.
Extra-checks might be added to ensure access to the resource is granted. Returned data might also be filtered.
### Administrator access
Authentication as well as an administrator role are required to access the environments(endpoints) with this access policy.
# Execute Docker requests
Portainer **DO NOT** expose specific environments(endpoints) to manage your Docker resources (create a container, remove a volume, etc...).
Instead, it acts as a reverse-proxy to the Docker HTTP API. This means that you can execute Docker requests **via** the Portainer HTTP API.
To do so, you can use the `/endpoints/{id}/docker` Portainer API environment(endpoint) (which is not documented below due to Swagger limitations). This environment(endpoint) has a restricted access policy so you still need to be authenticated to be able to query this environment(endpoint). Any query on this environment(endpoint) will be proxied to the Docker API of the associated environment(endpoint) (requests and responses objects are the same as documented in the Docker API).
# Private Registry
Using private registry, you will need to pass a based64 encoded JSON string ‘{"registryId":\<registryID value\>}’ inside the Request Header. The parameter name is "X-Registry-Auth".
\<registryID value\> - The registry ID where the repository was created.
Example:
```
eyJyZWdpc3RyeUlkIjoxfQ==
```
**NOTE**: You can find more information on how to query the Docker API in the [Docker official documentation](https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.30/) as well as in [this Portainer example](https://documentation.portainer.io/api/api-examples/).
'
license:
name: zlib
url: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/blob/develop/LICENSE
title: PortainerCE auth System API
version: 2.39.1
servers:
- url: /api
tags:
- description: Manage Portainer system
name: system
paths:
/system/info:
get:
description: '**Access policy**: authenticated'
operationId: systemInfo
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/system.systemInfoResponse'
'500':
description: Server error
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Retrieve system info
tags:
- system
/system/nodes:
get:
description: '**Access policy**: authenticated'
operationId: systemNodesCount
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/system.nodesCountResponse'
'500':
description: Server error
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Retrieve the count of nodes
tags:
- system
/system/status:
get:
description: 'Retrieve Portainer status
**Access policy**: public'
operationId: systemStatus
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/system.status'
summary: Check Portainer status
tags:
- system
/system/upgrade:
post:
description: 'Upgrade Portainer to BE
**Access policy**: administrator'
operationId: systemUpgrade
responses:
'204':
description: Success
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/system.status'
summary: Upgrade Portainer to BE
tags:
- system
/system/version:
get:
description: 'Check if portainer has an update available
**Access policy**: authenticated'
operationId: systemVersion
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/system.versionResponse'
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Check for portainer updates
tags:
- system
components:
schemas:
build.RuntimeInfo:
properties:
Env:
items:
type: string
type: array
type: object
platform.ContainerPlatform:
enum:
- Docker
- Docker Standalone
- Docker Swarm
- Kubernetes
- Podman
type: string
x-enum-varnames:
- PlatformDocker
- PlatformDockerStandalone
- PlatformDockerSwarm
- PlatformKubernetes
- PlatformPodman
system.status:
properties:
InstanceID:
description: Server Instance ID
example: 299ab403-70a8-4c05-92f7-bf7a994d50df
type: string
Version:
description: Portainer API version
example: 2.0.0
type: string
type: object
build.BuildInfo:
properties:
BuildNumber:
type: string
GitCommit:
type: string
GoVersion:
type: string
ImageTag:
type: string
NodejsVersion:
type: string
PnpmVersion:
type: string
WebpackVersion:
type: string
type: object
system.versionResponse:
properties:
Build:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/build.BuildInfo'
DatabaseVersion:
type: string
Dependencies:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/build.DependenciesInfo'
LatestVersion:
description: The latest version available
example: 2.0.0
type: string
Runtime:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/build.RuntimeInfo'
ServerEdition:
example: CE/EE
type: string
ServerVersion:
type: string
UpdateAvailable:
description: Whether portainer has an update available
example: false
type: boolean
VersionSupport:
example: STS/LTS
type: string
type: object
build.DependenciesInfo:
properties:
ComposeVersion:
type: string
DockerVersion:
type: string
HelmVersion:
type: string
KubectlVersion:
type: string
type: object
system.systemInfoResponse:
properties:
agents:
type: integer
edgeAgents:
type: integer
platform:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/platform.ContainerPlatform'
type: object
system.nodesCountResponse:
properties:
nodes:
type: integer
type: object
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
in: header
name: X-API-KEY
type: apiKey
jwt:
in: header
name: Authorization
type: apiKey