API Overview

APIs provided by the EIP service include native OpenStack APIs and EIP APIs.

A combination of these two types of APIs allows you to use all functions provided by the EIP service.

**Table 1** EIP APIs
Type	Subtype	Description
EIP API	EIP	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing EIPs
EIP API	Bandwidth	APIs for querying and updating bandwidth
EIP API	Bandwidth (v2.0)	APIs for assigning and deleting shared bandwidth APIs for adding an EIP to or removing an EIP from a shared bandwidth
EIP API	Quota	API for querying quota values
EIP API	EIP tag management	APIs for adding tags to EIPs as well as querying and deleting EIP tags
OpenStack Neutron API	Floating IP address	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing floating IP addresses
OpenStack Neutron API	API version	APIs for querying all available API versions and displaying the results in pages.