# Sozu Command API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/sozu/sozu-command-api/  
**Provider:** Sozu — https://apis.io/providers/sozu/  
**Base URL:** https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu  
**Documentation:** https://docs.sozu.io/

Sozu Command API is one of 3 APIs that [Sozu](https://apis.io/providers/sozu/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Proxy, Command API, Protobuf, and Runtime Configuration. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, and 2 JSON Schemas.

The Sozu Command API provides programmatic control of the Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy at runtime. External tools communicate with the Sozu main process through a secure Unix socket using a protobuf-based binary protocol (IPC). The sozu-command-lib crate ships the protobuf schema, configuration parser, replicated state, channels, and file descriptor passing helpers. This enables dynamic cluster configuration, certificate management, and backend routing changes without restarts.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.sozu.io/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.sozu.io/getting-started/
- **Configuration** — https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu/blob/main/doc/configure.md
- **How To Use** — https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu/blob/main/doc/how_to_use.md
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sozu/refs/heads/main/json-schema/sozu-cluster-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sozu/refs/heads/main/json-schema/sozu-frontend-schema.json
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sozu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Sozu APIs (2)

- [Sozu ACME Integration](https://apis.io/apis/sozu/sozu-acme-api/)
- [Sozu Command Futures API](https://apis.io/apis/sozu/sozu-command-futures-api/)

## Tags

Proxy, Command API, Protobuf, Runtime Configuration

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