Chapter 3. Developing with IBM SmartCloud Enterprise APIs

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is a public Infrastructure as a Service cloud hosted at www.ibm.com/cloud/enterprise and is suitable for enterprises. IBM’s differentiators include a broad range of services and products, self-service and delegated administration models that enable collaboration, enterprise-suitable business support services, and a large catalog of virtual machine images created by the image development center of excellence.

The IBM SmartCloud Enterprise REST API is the fundamental way to programmatically communicate with the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. It includes most of the capabilities you can perform from the self-service user interface, including managing instances, images, ...

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