Create a Cloud Zone

To create a cloud zone, you first make GET request to obtain a region ID with a cloud account ID as input. Then you make a POST request with the region ID.

Prerequisites

• Verify that all general prerequisites have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for working with the Cloud Assembly APIs.
• Verify that you have the cloud account ID for the cloud account you added. See Add an AWS Cloud Account.

Procedure

1. Assign the cloud account ID variable.

   cloud_account_id='<your_cloud_account_id>'

2. Look up the IDs for the region named us-east-1 that is associated with the cloud account.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/regions/?apiVersion=$api_version&"'$filter'"=externalRegionId%20eq%20'us-east-1'%20and%20cloudAccountId%20eq%20'"$cloud_account_id"'"  | jq "."

3. To obtain a region ID, examine the response.
4. Assign the region ID variable.

   region_id='<your_region_id>'

5. Create a cloud zone.

   curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" -d '{ "name": "Demo-zone-1", "description": "This zone is for Demo", "regionId": "'$region_id'", "placementPolicy": "DEFAULT" }' "$url/iaas/api/zones?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

6. To obtain a cloud zone ID, examine the response.
7. Assign the zone ID variable.

   zone_id='<your_cloud_zone_id>'

8. List all cloud zones.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/zones?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

9. (Optional) List the cloud zone with your cloud zone ID.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/zones/$zone_id?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

10. Examine the output to verify that the cloud zone you created is listed.

Example: Create a Cloud Zone

Assign variables, specify a cloud account and look up IDs for the region named us-east-1 associated with the cloud account.

$ url='https://appliance.domain.com'
$ api_version='2021-07-15'
$ cloud_account_id='c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-f8e705d89b2569e1aac66c6d00bf4fc7ef4b1c44100f0e944af31eb8ba3d2a5a-f4226a20b65c4675574bc5fbff6c0'
$ curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/regions/?apiVersion=$api_version&"'$filter'"=externalRegionId%20eq%20'us-east-1'%20and%20cloudAccountId%20eq%20'"$cloud_account_id"'"  | jq "."

A snippet of the response from your request shows your cloud account ID with a region ID.

...
"externalRegionId": "us-east-1",
"cloudAccountId": "c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-f8e705d89b2569e1aac66c6d00bf4fc7ef4b1c44100f0e944af31eb8ba3d2a5a-f4226a20b65c4675574bc5fbff6c0",
"id": "4965d34c3bfe0275574bc5fd858e8",
"updatedAt": "2022-04-02",
...

Specify a region ID and create a cloud zone.

$ region_id='4965d34c3bfe0275574bc5fd858e8'
$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" -d '{ "name": "Demo-zone-1", "description": "This zone is for Demo", "regionId": "'$region_id'", "placementPolicy": "DEFAULT" }' "$url/iaas/api/zones?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

A snippet of the response from your request shows the zone ID.

...      
"name": "Aws / us-east-1",
"id": "4965d34c3bfe0275574bc5fd8782a",
"updatedAt": "2022-04-02",
...