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About The Security Groups Extension

The Security Groups extension lets you view, create, and remove security groups for instances plus set rules for security groups using the OpenStack Compute API 1.1.

To obtain current information the extensions available to you, issue an EXTENSION query on the OpenStack system where it is installed, such as http://mycloud.com/v1.1/tenant/extensions.

Security Groups Extension Overview

Name
Security Groups
Namespace
http://docs.openstack.org/ext/securitygroups/api/v1.1
Alias
OPS-SCG
Contact
Tushar Patil <tushar.vitthal.patil@gmail.com>
Status
Released
Extension Version
v1.0 (2011-08-11)
Dependencies
Compute API 1.1
Doc Link (PDF)
http://
Doc Link (WADL)
http://
Short Description
This extension enables creation and listing of security groups.

Sample Query Responses

As shown below, responses to an EXTENSION query in XML or JSON provide basic information about the extension.

Extension Query Response: XML:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 3295
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:06:55 GMT

<extensions xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://docs.openstack.org/compute/api/v1.1">
<extension name="SecurityGroups" namespace="http://docs.openstack.org/ext/securitygroups/api/v1.1" alias="security_groups" updated="2011-07-21T00:00:00+00:00"><description>Security group support</description></extension>
</extensions>

Extension Query Response: JSON:

{"extensions": [{"updated": "2011-07-21T00:00:00+00:00", "name": "SecurityGroups", "links": [], "namespace": "http://docs.openstack.org/ext/securitygroups/api/v1.1", "alias": "security_groups", "description": "Security group support"}]}

Document Change History

Revision Date Summary of Changes
2011-09-16 Initial draft

Summary of Changes

This extension to the Compute API allows you to create, update, and delete security groups.

To support these new actions, the extension also issues new (faults, headers, resources, states, you name it.)

New Actions

os-security-group

os-security-group-rules

Include the response codes, transitions if applicable, and XML and JSON examples.

New Faults

None

New Headers

None

New Resources

None

New States

None

Changes to the Cloud Servers Specification

List the specific changes to the API. For example:

In section 4.1.1 (List Servers) of the Cloud Servers Specification: Examples 4.1 and 4.2 should be replaced with Example 2.7 and Example 2.8 below.

Provide examples in XML and JSON