# wasmCloud Control Interface API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-control-api/  
**Provider:** wasmCloud — https://apis.io/providers/wasmcloud/  
**Documentation:** https://wasmcloud.com/docs/hosts/lattice-protocols/control-interface/

wasmCloud Control Interface API is one of 5 APIs that [wasmCloud](https://apis.io/providers/wasmcloud/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Control API, Lattice Management, and NATS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and an AsyncAPI specification.

The wasmCloud control interface provides a NATS-based API for managing the wasmCloud lattice. It supports operations for starting and stopping actors and providers, establishing links between components, querying host inventories, and managing application deployments. The wash CLI and wasmCloud dashboard interact with hosts through this interface.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://wasmcloud.com/docs/hosts/lattice-protocols/control-interface/
- **Reference** — https://wasmcloud.com/docs/concepts/
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wasmcloud/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/wasmcloud-control-asyncapi.yml
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wasmcloud/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/wasmcloud-lattice-events-asyncapi.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wasmcloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other wasmCloud APIs (4)

- [wasmCloud Application Deployment Manager (wadm) API](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-wadm-api/)
- [wasmCloud wash CLI](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-wash-cli/)
- [wasmCloud WIT Interfaces](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-interfaces/)
- [wasmCloud Kubernetes Operator](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-kubernetes-operator/)

## Tags

Control API, Lattice Management, NATS

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