Developing with the Cloud Platform API¶

Getting started¶

To start using Cloud Platform API, you must generate your API token, as described in Cloud Platform API v2 authentication.

What can the Cloud Platform API do?¶

You can use the Cloud Platform API to do many of the tasks that are needed as part of your daily application development and continuous integration process.

• Workflow: Deploy code, databases, and user-uploaded files across your Development, Staging, and Production environments. The Cloud Platform API enables you to run any branch or tag from your Git repository in any environment as you can do from the Cloud Platform interface. This allows you to automate these functions, instead of having to log in to the Cloud Platform interface and manually drag elements from one environment to another.

• Backups: Create, restore, and delete backups of your application’s databases. Cloud Platform fully supports Drupal multisite installations, with as many databases per codebase as you need.

• Application Information: Retrieve current information about your application and its environments, including deployed code, databases, backups, and tasks.

• Task information: Check the progress and completion status of ongoing tasks that support the notificationUuid parameter.

• User Roles and Permissions: The Cloud Platform API allows you to work with roles and permissions as you would do from the Cloud Platform interface. You can create and remove teams, add or remove members from teams, or modify which applications are associated to which teams. Automate any functions you perform on a regular basis.

Notable to the Cloud Platform API is its integration with Cloud Hooks, which allows you automate nearly any action to be performed along with your workflow actions. You can do the following:

• Perform Drupal database updates or run your test suite when new code is deployed, and roll back to a previous release if the tests fail.

• Scrub your Production database when it is copied to Development or Staging by removing customer emails or disabling production-only modules.

• Check the progress and completion status of ongoing tasks.

• Integrate with third-party services, for example, by performing a Blitz.io performance test, when you deploy new code.

Comparing Cloud Platform API versions¶

With more robust documentation and monitoring, the Cloud Platform API v2 provides additional functionality as compared to Cloud Platform API v1, as described in the following table:

Permissions for accessing the Cloud Platform API¶

The roles and permissions assigned to your Cloud Platform account determine how you interact with the Cloud Platform API. You are not required to have the Access the Cloud API permission to use the Cloud Platform API. For information about assigning permissions to users in your organization, see Working with roles and permissions.

Rate limits in the Cloud Platform API¶

To prevent a single user from adversely affecting shared resources, Cloud Platform API calls are limited to 100 calls per minute. Cloud Platform API calls exceeding the rate limit receive an HTTP 429 Too Many Requests status code response containing a Retry-After header, containing the number of seconds until Cloud Platform API calls will be unblocked.

Additional resources¶

• Cloud Platform API v2 resources:

  • Cloud API v2 reference

  • Cloud API authentication

  • Download an example authentication script

  • Download an example database creation script