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+.. _mgr-ceph-api:
+
+================
+Ceph RESTful API
+================
+
+Introduction
+============
+The **Ceph RESTful API** (henceforth **Ceph API**) is provided by the
+:ref:`mgr-dashboard` module. The Ceph API
+service is available at the same URL as the regular Ceph Dashboard, under the
+``/api`` base path (please refer to :ref:`dashboard-host-name-and-port`)::
+
+  http://<server_addr>:<server_port>/api
+
+or, if HTTPS is enabled (please refer to :ref:`dashboard-ssl-tls-support`)::
+
+  https://<server_addr>:<ssl_server_port>/api
+
+The Ceph API leverages the following standards:
+
+* `HTTP 1.1 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231>`_ for API syntax and semantics,
+* `JSON <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259>`_ for content encoding,
+* `HTTP Content Negotiation <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2295>`_ and `MIME <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045>`_ for versioning,
+* `OAuth 2.0 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750>`_ and `JWT <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519>`_ for authentication and authorization.
+
+.. warning::
+  Some endpoints are still under active development, and should be carefully
+  used since new Ceph releases could bring backward incompatible changes.
+
+
+Authentication and Authorization
+================================
+
+Requests to the Ceph API pass through two access control checkpoints:
+
+* **Authentication**: ensures that the request is performed on behalf of an existing and valid user account.
+* **Authorization**: ensures that the previously authenticated user can in fact perform a specific action (create, read, update or delete) on the target endpoint.
+
+So, prior to start consuming the Ceph API, a valid JSON Web Token (JWT) has to
+be obtained, and it may then be reused for subsequent requests. The
+``/api/auth`` endpoint will provide the valid token:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+  $ curl -X POST "https://example.com:8443/api/auth" \
+    -H  "Accept: application/vnd.ceph.api.v1.0+json" \
+    -H  "Content-Type: application/json" \
+    -d '{"username": <username>, "password": <password>}'
+
+  { "token": "<redacted_token>", ...}
+
+The token obtained must be passed together with every API request in the
+``Authorization`` HTTP header::
+
+  curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" ...
+
+Authentication and authorization can be further configured from the
+Ceph CLI, the Ceph-Dashboard UI and the Ceph API itself (please refer to
+:ref:`dashboard-user-role-management`).
+
+Versioning
+==========
+
+One of the main goals of the Ceph API is to keep a stable interface. For this
+purpose, Ceph API is built upon the following principles:
+
+* **Mandatory**: in order to avoid implicit defaults, all endpoints require an explicit default version (starting with ``1.0``).
+* **Per-endpoint**: as this API wraps many different Ceph components, this allows for a finer-grained change control.
+   * **Content/MIME Type**: the version expected from a specific endpoint is stated by the ``Accept: application/vnd.ceph.api.v<major>.<minor>+json`` HTTP header. If the current Ceph API server is not able to address that specific major version, a `415 - Unsupported Media Type <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.13>`_ response will be returned.
+* **Semantic Versioning**: with a ``major.minor`` version:
+   * Major changes are backward incompatible: they might result in non-additive changes to the request and/or response formats of a specific endpoint.
+   * Minor changes are backward/forward compatible: they basically consists of additive changes to the request or response formats of a specific endpoint.
+
+An example:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  $ curl -X GET "https://example.com:8443/api/osd" \
+    -H  "Accept: application/vnd.ceph.api.v1.0+json" \
+    -H  "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
+
+
+Specification
+=============
+
+.. openapi:: ../../../src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/openapi.yaml
+    :group:
+    :examples:
+    :encoding: utf-8