Improve navigability of agent HTTP API categories

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Brian Lalor 2014-10-23 07:44:20 -04:00
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All endpoints fall into one of several categories:
* kv - Key/Value store
* agent - Agent control
* catalog - Manages nodes and services
* health - Manages health checks
* session - Session manipulation
* acl - ACL creations and management
* event - User Events
* status - Consul system status
* [kv][kv] - Key/Value store
* [agent][agent] - Agent control
* [catalog][catalog] - Manages nodes and services
* [health][health] - Manages health checks
* [session][session] - Session manipulation
* [acl][acl] - ACL creations and management
* [event][event] - User Events
* [status][status] - Consul system status
* internal - Internal APIs. Purposely undocumented, subject to change.
Each of the categories and their respective endpoints are documented below.
@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ configuration option. However, the token can also be specified per-request
by using the "?token=" query parameter. This will take precedence over the
default token.
## KV
## <a name="kv"></a> KV
The KV endpoint is used to expose a simple key/value store. This can be used
to store service configurations or other meta data in a simple way. It has only
@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ keys sharing a prefix. If the "?recurse" query parameter is provided,
then all keys with the prefix are deleted, otherwise only the specified
key.
## Agent
## <a name="agent"></a> Agent
The Agent endpoints are used to interact with a local Consul agent. Usually,
services and checks are registered with an agent, which then takes on the
@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ check, that is also deregistered.
The return code is 200 on success.
## Catalog
## <a name="catalog"></a> Catalog
The Catalog is the endpoint used to register and deregister nodes,
services, and checks. It also provides a number of query endpoints.
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This endpoint supports blocking queries and all consistency modes.
## Health
## <a name="health"></a> Health
The Health used to query health related information. It is provided separately
from the Catalog, since users may prefer to not use the health checking mechanisms
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This endpoint supports blocking queries and all consistency modes.
## Session
## <a name="session"></a> Session
The Session endpoints are used to create, destroy and query sessions.
The following endpoints are supported:
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This endpoint supports blocking queries and all consistency modes.
## ACL
## <a name="acl"></a> ACL
The ACL endpoints are used to create, update, destroy and query ACL tokens.
The following endpoints are supported:
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]
```
## Event
## <a name="event"></a> Event
The Event endpoints are used to fire new events and to query the available
events.
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]
```
## Status
## <a name="status"></a> Status
The Status endpoints are used to get information about the status
of the Consul cluster. This are generally very low level, and not really
@ -1389,3 +1389,12 @@ the agent is running in. It returns a list of addresses like:
"10.1.10.10:8300"
]
```
[kv]: #kv
[agent]: #agent
[catalog]: #catalog
[health]: #health
[session]: #session
[acl]: #acl
[event]: #event
[status]: #status