Memset unveils cloud computing API

Cloud provider Memset announced has rolled out its own API that will allow customers to manage their entire cloud portfolio.

The launch of the API comes a year after the company started offering a private cloud service at the same price as its public cloud offering.

It enables customers to perform many of the same operations they can currently perform with their web based control panel, but from their own applications. This, Memset said, would present customers with a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration and scale requirements…


The API works for a range of Memset products including Miniserver VM provisioning, DNS management, Performance Patrol cluster management, bandwidth management and, in the case of Memstore their cloud storage product, supplements the existing OpenStack API. The company joined OpenStack last May.

The roll out of the API is a move by the company to increase API functionality past limited basic provisioning capabilities to include automated provisioning of full dedicated servers.

Providing a consistent, well-designed and fully documented API is very important to customers and company alike, according to Juan Martinez, Lead OpenStack Developer at Memset, who added it was necessary if the company wants to "evolve our cloud computing services into a cloud computing platform where our customers can build and scale their products with complete confidence.”

“The API is important because it changes the way our infrastructure is used: we provide all our existing services as building blocks that can be combined programmatically in ways that we haven’t thought about but may be very important to our customers,” he said.

The company has created the API using standard protocols making it as easy and simple for companies to use as possible. It has provided two different access methods over HTTPS, including a RESTful interface (using JSON) and an XML-RPC interface. An open source command line shell has also been provided, making it very easy to navigate the API and execute remote commands with no programming involved.

Memset plans to add a compatibility layer to work with OpenStack in the future. It said it believed that OpenStack Cloud Compute API will prevail as the standard for cloud computing.