API Overview

VPC APIs include both native OpenStack APIs and extension APIs.

A combination of these two types of APIs allows you to use all functions provided by the VPC service. If a function involves both native OpenStack APIs and extension VPC APIs, use extension VPC APIs preferentially.

VPC APIs

**Table 1** API description
Type	Description
Virtual Private Cloud	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting VPCs
Subnet	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting subnets
Quota	API for querying quota values
Private IP Address	APIs for assigning, querying, and releasing private IP addresses
Security Group	APIs for creating, querying, and deleting security groups APIs for creating, querying, and deleting security group rules
Port	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting ports
VPC Peering Connection	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting VPC peering connections APIs for accepting and rejecting VPC peering connection requests
VPC Route	APIs for creating, querying, and deleting VPC routes
VPC Tag Management	APIs for adding tags to VPCs, as well as querying and deleting VPC tags APIs for adding tags to subnets as well as querying and deleting subnet tags

Native OpenStack APIs

**Table 2** Native OpenStack APIs
Type	Description
API Version Information	APIs for querying all available API versions and displaying the results in pages.
Port	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting ports
Network	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting networks
Subnet	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting subnets
Router	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting routers
Network ACL	APIs for creating, updating, and releasing network ACLs APIs for creating, updating, deleting, and querying network ACL rules. APIs for creating, updating, deleting, and querying network ACL policies
Security Group	APIs for creating, querying, updating, and deleting security groups APIs for creating, querying, and deleting security group rules