dos: improve api info

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André Roth
2024-11-28 14:13:50 +01:00
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Using aptly via REST API allows to achieve two goals:
Aptly operations are also available via REST API served with `aptly api serve`.
1. Remote access to aptly service: e.g. uploading packages and publishing them from CI server.
2. Concurrent access to aptly by multiple users.
On Debian based systems, a package `aptly-api` is available, which will run aptly as systemd service as dedicated aptly-api user.
#### Quickstart
Run `aptly api serve` to start HTTP service:
$ aptly api serve
Starting web server at: :8080 (press Ctrl+C to quit)...
[GIN-debug] GET /api/version --> github.com/aptly-dev/aptly/api.apiVersion (4 handlers)
...
By default aptly would listen on `:8080`, but it could be changed with `-listen` flag.
Usage:
$ aptly api serve -listen=:8080
Flags:
- `-listen=":8080"`: host:port for HTTP listening
- `-no-lock`: don't lock the database
When `-no-lock` option is enabled, API server acquires and drops the lock
around all the operations, so that API and CLI could be used concurrently.
Try some APIs:
#### Example API calls
$ curl http://localhost:8080/api/version
{"Version":"0.9~dev"}
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$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"Distribution": "wheezy", "Sources": [{"Name": "aptly-repo"}]}' http://localhost:8080/api/publish//repos
{"Architectures":["i386"],"Distribution":"wheezy","Label":"","Origin":"","Prefix":".","SourceKind":"local","Sources":[{"Component":"main","Name":"aptly-repo"}],"Storage":""}
#### Security
For security reasons it is advised to let Aptly listen on a Unix domain socket rather than a port. Sockets are subject to file permissions and thus allow for user-level access control while binding to a port only gives host-level access control. To use a socket simply run Aptly with a suitable listen flag such as `aptly api serve -listen=unix:///var/run/aptly.sock`.
Aptly's HTTP API shouldn't be directly exposed to the Internet: there's no authentication/protection of APIs. To publish the API it could be proxied through a HTTP proxy or server (e.g. nginx) to add an authentication mechanism or disallow all non-GET requests. [Reference example](https://github.com/sepich/nginx-ldap) for LDAP based per-repo access with nginx.
#### Notes
1. Some things (for example, S3 publishing endpoints) could be set up only using configuration file, so it requires restart of aptly HTTP server in order for changes to take effect.
1. GPG key passphrase can't be input on console, so either passwordless GPG keys are required or passphrase should be specified in API parameters.
1. Some script might be required to start/stop aptly HTTP service.
1. Some parameters are given as part of URLs, which requires proper url encoding. Unfortunately, at the moment it's not possible to pass URL arguments with `/` in them.
- Some configuration changes (S3 publishing endpoints, ...) will require restarting the aptly service
- Aptly's HTTP API shouldn't be directly exposed to the Internet as there is no authentication/protection of APIs. Consider using a HTTP proxy or server (e.g. nginx) to add an authentication mechanism.
#### Aptly REST API Documentation

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display: none;
}
/* spacing */
.swagger-ui .info {
margin: 0px !important;
}
/* API Summary */
.swagger-ui .opblock-summary-description {
flex: 0 0 auto !important;
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/* Group Spacing */
.swagger-ui .opblock-tag-section {
padding-top: 40px !important;
padding-bottom: 40px !important;
}
/* Tag Group */