Portainer websocket API
Create exec sessions using websockets
Create exec sessions using websockets
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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 Websocket API
version: 2.39.1
servers:
- url: /api
tags:
- description: Create exec sessions using websockets
name: websocket
paths:
/websocket/attach:
get:
description: 'If the nodeName query parameter is present, the request will be proxied to the underlying agent environment(endpoint).
If the nodeName query parameter is not specified, the request will be upgraded to the websocket protocol and
an AttachStart operation HTTP request will be created and hijacked.
**Access policy**: authenticated'
parameters:
- description: environment(endpoint) ID of the environment(endpoint) where the resource is located
in: query
name: endpointId
required: true
schema:
type: integer
- description: node name
in: query
name: nodeName
schema:
type: string
- description: JWT token used for authentication against this environment(endpoint)
in: query
name: token
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: OK
'400':
description: Bad Request
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: Not Found
'500':
description: Internal Server Error
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Attach a websocket
tags:
- websocket
/websocket/exec:
get:
description: 'If the nodeName query parameter is present, the request will be proxied to the underlying agent environment(endpoint).
If the nodeName query parameter is not specified, the request will be upgraded to the websocket protocol and
an ExecStart operation HTTP request will be created and hijacked.'
parameters:
- description: environment(endpoint) ID of the environment(endpoint) where the resource is located
in: query
name: endpointId
required: true
schema:
type: integer
- description: node name
in: query
name: nodeName
schema:
type: string
- description: JWT token used for authentication against this environment(endpoint)
in: query
name: token
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: OK
'400':
description: Bad Request
'409':
description: Conflict
'500':
description: Internal Server Error
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Execute a websocket
tags:
- websocket
/websocket/kubernetes-shell:
get:
description: 'The request will be upgraded to the websocket protocol. The request will proxy input from the client to the pod via long-lived websocket connection.
**Access policy**: authenticated'
parameters:
- description: environment(endpoint) ID of the environment(endpoint) where the resource is located
in: query
name: endpointId
required: true
schema:
type: integer
- description: JWT token used for authentication against this environment(endpoint)
in: query
name: token
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Success
'400':
description: Invalid request
'403':
description: Permission denied
'500':
description: Server error
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Execute a websocket on kubectl shell pod
tags:
- websocket
/websocket/pod:
get:
description: 'The request will be upgraded to the websocket protocol.
**Access policy**: authenticated'
parameters:
- description: environment(endpoint) ID of the environment(endpoint) where the resource is located
in: query
name: endpointId
required: true
schema:
type: integer
- description: namespace where the container is located
in: query
name: namespace
required: true
schema:
type: string
- description: name of the pod containing the container
in: query
name: podName
required: true
schema:
type: string
- description: name of the container
in: query
name: containerName
required: true
schema:
type: string
- description: command to execute in the container
in: query
name: command
required: true
schema:
type: string
- description: JWT token used for authentication against this environment(endpoint)
in: query
name: token
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: OK
'400':
description: Bad Request
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: Not Found
'500':
description: Internal Server Error
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- jwt: []
summary: Execute a websocket on pod
tags:
- websocket
components:
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
in: header
name: X-API-KEY
type: apiKey
jwt:
in: header
name: Authorization
type: apiKey