How to authenticate Cloud Platform API

[tobias_mitter2]

Hello,

we want to use the cloud foundry platform api (http://v3-apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/version/3.81.0/index.html) to do some automation.

The API is OAuth2 protected. In order to authenticate, we would need to create an oauth client and use the credentials to get a token. We did not find any way to do that.

How can we access the api?

There is one way for testing we found, as according to the cloud foundry documentation you can get an oauth token with the CLI command "cf oauth-token". That is the only way we found to actually being able to call the api, but this is only ok for some quick testing, but for a live scenario we need a REST way to get a token.

Cloud Foundry documentation describes some way to create a client, but this does not work on SAP Cloud Foundry, as we don't have access to tools and infrastructure.

Thanks and regards,

Tobias

[gregorw]

Perhaps you can describe better what "some automation" means in detail. Because there is a way to retrieve the Audit Logs using an API for the Cloud Foundry Environment.

[tobias_mitter2 · Accepted solution]

So I am going to answer this myself. It seems there is no solution yet, but there is one coming.

See this: https://help.sap.com/viewer/65de2977205c403bbc107264b8eccf4b/Cloud/en-US/3670474a58c24ac2b082e76cbbd...

Just stumbled over it by accident. When I look at the supported scopes though, it seems it is only a part of the whole api. It doesn't even say which api (v2 or v3), it might even be that SAP is building a facade around it...have to check it out some time. Hope this helps.

[mike_zaschka · Accepted solution]

Hi tobias.mitter2,

did you find a solution in the meantime?
I am stuck with the same problem. The token obtained from the CLI (cf oauth-token) is working fine to access the Cloud Controller API (v2 and v3), but I am not able to get a valid access-token from any authorization endpoint, including the Cloud Management Service.

Kind Regards,

Mike

[tobias_mitter2 · Accepted solution]

Hello Mike, as we are still not on feature set b, we could not move forward here. Regards, Tobias