Creating a Pay-per-Use Instance
Function
This API is used to create a pay-per-use instance.
Debugging
You can use API Explorer to debug this API.
URI
POST /v2/{project_id}/instances
Parameter | Mandatory | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
project_id | Yes | String | Project ID. |
Request Parameters
Parameter | Mandatory | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
name | Yes | String | Instance name. An instance name starts with a letter, consists of 4 to 64 characters, and can contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-). |
description | No | String | Instance description. The description can contain a maximum of 1024 characters. NOTE: The backslash () and quotation mark (") are special characters for JSON messages. When using these characters in a parameter value, add the escape character () before the characters, for example, \ and ". |
engine | Yes | String | Message engine. Value: kafka. |
engine_version | Yes | String | Version of the message engine. Value: 1.1.0 and 2.3.0. |
specification | Yes | String | Bandwidth of a Kafka instance, that is, the maximum amount of data transferred per unit time. Unit: MB. Options:
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storage_space | Yes | Integer | Message storage space in GB.
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partition_num | No | Integer | Maximum number of partitions in a Kafka instance.
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access_user | No | String | This parameter is mandatory when ssl_enable is set to true. This parameter is invalid when ssl_enable is set to false. The username must be 4 to 64 characters long and can contain only letters, digits, and hyphens (-). |
password | No | String | This parameter is mandatory when ssl_enable is set to true. This parameter is invalid when ssl_enable is set to false. Instance password. The password must meet the following complexity requirements:
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vpc_id | Yes | String | VPC ID. To obtain the value, log in to the VPC console, and click the name of a VPC to view the VPC ID on the displayed details page. |
security_group_id | Yes | String | ID of the security group to which the instance belongs. To obtain the value, log in to the VPC console. Choose Access Control > Security Groups in the navigation pane. On the Security Groups page, click the target security group. You can view the security group ID on the displayed page. |
subnet_id | Yes | String | Subnet information. To obtain the value, log in to the VPC console and click the target subnet on the Subnets page. You can view the network ID on the displayed page. |
available_zones | Yes | Array of strings | ID of the AZ where instance brokers reside and which has available resources. This parameter cannot be empty or null. A Kafka instance can be deployed in 1 AZ or at least 3 AZs. When specifying AZs for brokers, separate multiple AZs with commas (,). |
product_id | Yes | String | Product ID. |
kafka_manager_user | Yes | String | Username for logging in to Kafka Manager. The username consists of 4 to 64 characters and can contain only letters, digits, and hyphens (-). |
kafka_manager_password | Yes | String | Password for logging in to Kafka Manager. The password must meet the following complexity requirements:
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maintain_begin | No | String | Time at which a maintenance time window starts. Format: HH:mm.
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maintain_end | No | String | Time at which a maintenance time window ends. Format: HH:mm.
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enable_publicip | No | Boolean | Whether to enable public access for the instance. By default, public access is disabled.
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public_bandwidth | No | Integer | Public network bandwidth. Unit: Mbit/s. Value range:
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publicip_id | No | String | ID of the EIP bound to an instance. Use commas (,) to separate multiple EIP IDs. This parameter is mandatory if public access is enabled (that is, enable_publicip is set to true). |
ssl_enable | No | Boolean | Whether to enable SSL-encrypted access.
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retention_policy | No | String | Action to be taken when the memory usage reaches the disk capacity threshold. Possible values:
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connector_enable | No | Boolean | Whether to enable message dumping. By default, message dumping is disabled. |
enable_auto_topic | No | Boolean | Whether to enable automatic topic creation.
If it is enabled, a topic will be automatically created with 3 partitions and 3 replicas when a message is created in or retrieved from a topic that does not exist. |
storage_spec_code | Yes | String | Storage I/O specification. Options:
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enterprise_project_id | No | String | Enterprise project ID. This parameter is mandatory for an enterprise project account. |
tags | No | Array of TagEntity objects | Tags. |
Parameter | Mandatory | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
key | No | String | Tag key, which can contain a maximum of 36 Unicode characters. The key cannot be left blank or an empty string. It cannot contain nonprintable ASCII (0–31) characters and the following special characters: =*<>,|/ |
value | No | String | Tag value, which can contain a maximum of 43 Unicode characters. The value cannot be left blank but can be an empty string. It cannot contain nonprintable ASCII (0–31) characters and the following special characters: =*<>,|/ |
Response Parameters
Status code: 200
Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
instance_id | String | Instance ID. |
Example Requests
POST https://{endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/instances
{
"name" : "kafka-test",
"description" : "",
"engine" : "kafka",
"engine_version" : "1.1.0",
"storage_space" : 300,
"kafka_manager_user" : "root",
"kafka_manager_password" : "**********",
"vpc_id" : "23921d2a-****-****-****-5f2fa5327a48",
"security_group_id" : "2e888928-****-****-****-e36c6520d473",
"subnet_id" : "37bb12c9-****-****-****-ae8f7d336ab6",
"available_zones" : [ "a0865121f83b41cbafce65930a22a6e8" ],
"product_id" : "00300-30310-0--0",
"maintain_begin" : "22:00",
"maintain_end" : "02:00",
"ssl_enable" : true,
"enable_publicip" : true,
"publicip_id" : "6db1129f-16af-455d-8d54-d7ab9f277393,bb200202-423f-49e4-bae7-8ab3c36cdc3e,ca8801e8-6620-42af-b506-a5c9ee395466",
"access_user" : "root",
"password" : "**********",
"enterprise_project_id" : "0",
"specification" : "300MB",
"partition_num" : 900,
"retention_policy" : "time_base",
"public_boundwidth" : 3,
"connector_enable" : false,
"enable_auto_topic" : true,
"storage_spec_code" : "dms.physical.storage.ultra",
"tags" : [ {
"key" : "key1",
"value" : "value1"
}, {
"key" : "key2",
"value" : "value2"
} ]
} Example Responses
Status code: 200
An instance is created successfully.
{
"instance_id" : "8959ab1c-7n1a-yyb1-a05t-93dfc361b32d"
} Status Codes
Status Code | Description |
|---|---|
200 | An instance is created successfully. |
Error Codes
See Error Codes.
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