Platform9 UUID

The Qbert API in Platform9 relies on unique identifiers for the object that the API is interacting with, below is a list of objects and the related method for obtaining the objects UUID.

Qbert API ReferenceAPI

Tenants / Project UUID

A critical UUID is the UUID of the Tenant that a cluster is attached to, this is referred to as the Project UUID within the Platform9 Qbert API Reference. The Tenant UUID is utilized in all basic requests to load managed elements.

To obtain the Tenant UUID follow the steps below:

1. Log into the Platform9 SaaS Management Plane
2. Navigate to the Account Settings Dashboard under the Avatar
3. On the Account Settings page Select Users and Tenants
4. The table on the Tenants tab contains each Tenant and the related UUID. If the UUID isn't shown click the gear icon and enable the UUID column.

The UUID will be in the format: c89ed4aa436f46d09d532c467961dbee

https://pmkft-demo-18238.platform9.io/qbert/v4/c89ed4aa436f46d09d532c467961dbee/clusters

Users

A Users UUID is utilized only in Keystone specific interactions.

To obtain a Users UUID follow the steps below:

1. Log into the Platform9 SaaS Management Plane
2. Navigate to the Account Settings Dashboard under the Avatar
3. On the Account Settings page Select Users and Tenants
4. The table on the Users tab contains each User and the related UUID. If the UUID isn't shown click the gear icon and enable the UUID column.

Clusters

Cluster UUIDs are used in Qbert request for infrastructure management as well as when using the Platform9 K8s api proxy.

To obtain a Cluster UUID follow the steps below:

1. Log into the Platform9 SaaS Management Plane
2. Navigate to the Infrastructure Dashboard and click on the Clusters tab
3. Within the table containing all clusters use the Gear icon in the table control bar to add the UUID Column

Nodes

The node UUID is utilized in node management actions such as cluster scaling, node authorization and deauthorization.

To obtain a Node UUID follow the steps below:

1. Log into the Platform9 SaaS Management Plane
2. Navigate to the Infrastructure Dashboard and click on the Node tab
3. Within the table containing all clusters use the Gear icon in the table control bar to add the UUID Column