How to develop a dashboard to control LXD on Windows?

alexandrelara · December 10, 2017, 7:10am

I’d like to develop a dashboard (using Go) that controls LXD; however, it seems that LXD only works on Linux so I can’t test to see if the commands are really working as intended.

Is there any way to develop this on Windows? Or do I really need to have linux os installed?

simos · December 10, 2017, 9:01pm

You will be using the LXD REST API, therefore there should be no restriction in implementing it on Windows,

github.com

lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md

# REST API
## Introduction
All the communications between LXD and its clients happen using a
RESTful API over http which is then encapsulated over either SSL for
remote operations or a unix socket for local operations.

Not all of the REST interface requires authentication:

 * `GET` to `/` is allowed for everyone (lists the API endpoints)
 * `GET` to `/1.0` is allowed for everyone (but result varies)
 * `POST` to `/1.0/certificates` is allowed for everyone with a client certificate
 * `GET` to `/1.0/images/*` is allowed for everyone but only returns public images for unauthenticated users

Unauthenticated endpoints are clearly identified as such below.

## API versioning
The list of supported major API versions can be retrieved using `GET /`.

The reason for a major API bump is if the API breaks backward compatibility.

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Here is an example in AngularJS,