---
title: "KubeSphere API"
keywords: 'Kubernetes, KubeSphere, API'
description: 'KubeSphere API documentation'


weight: 240
---

In KubeSphere v3.0, we move the functionalities of _ks-apigateway_, _ks-account_ into _ks-apiserver_ to make the architecture more compact and straight forward. In order to use KubeSphere API, you need to expose _ks-apiserver_ to your client.

## Step 1: Expose KubeSphere API service

If you are going to access KubeSphere inside the cluster, you can skip the following section and just use the KubeSphere API server endpoint **`http://ks-apiserver.kubesphere-system.svc`**.

On the other hand, you need to expose the KubeSphere API server endpoint to the outside of the cluster first.

There are many ways to expose a Kubernetes service. For simplicity, we use _NodePort_ in our case. Change service `ks-apiserver` type to NodePort by using the following command.

```bash
$ kubectl -n kubesphere-system patch service ks-apiserver -p '{"spec":{"type":"NodePort"}}'
$ kubectl -n kubesphere-system get svc
NAME            TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)              AGE
etcd            ClusterIP      10.233.34.220   <none>           2379/TCP             44d
ks-apiserver    NodePort       10.233.15.31    <none>           80:31407/TCP         49d
ks-console      NodePort       10.233.3.45     <none>           80:30880/TCP         49d
```

Now, you can access `ks-apiserver` outside the cluster through URL like `http://[node ip]:31407`, where `[node ip]` means IP of any node in your cluster.

## Step 2: Generate a token

You need to identify yourself before making any call to the API server. Let's take a user `jeff` with password `P#$$w0rd` as an example. He needs to issue a request to generate a token like the following:

```bash
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
 'http://[node ip]:31407/oauth/token' \
  --data-urlencode 'grant_type=password' \
  --data-urlencode 'username=admin' \
  --data-urlencode 'password=P#$$w0rd'
```

{{< notice note >}}

Please substitue `[node ip]` with the real ip address.

{{</ notice >}}

If the identity is correct, the server will response something like the following. `access_token` is the token to access the KubeSphere API Server.

```json
{
 "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImFkbWluIiwidWlkIjoiYTlhNjJmOTEtYWQ2Yi00MjRlLWIxNWEtZTFkOTcyNmUzNDFhIiwidG9rZW5fdHlwZSI6ImFjY2Vzc190b2tlbiIsImV4cCI6MTYwMDg1MjM5OCwiaWF0IjoxNjAwODQ1MTk4LCJpc3MiOiJrdWJlc3BoZXJlIiwibmJmIjoxNjAwODQ1MTk4fQ.Hcyf-CPMeq8XyQQLz5PO-oE1Rp1QVkOeV_5J2oX1hvU",
 "token_type": "Bearer",
 "refresh_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImFkbWluIiwidWlkIjoiYTlhNjJmOTEtYWQ2Yi00MjRlLWIxNWEtZTFkOTcyNmUzNDFhIiwidG9rZW5fdHlwZSI6InJlZnJlc2hfdG9rZW4iLCJleHAiOjE2MDA4NTk1OTgsImlhdCI6MTYwMDg0NTE5OCwiaXNzIjoia3ViZXNwaGVyZSIsIm5iZiI6MTYwMDg0NTE5OH0.PerssCLVXJD7BuCF3Ow8QUNYLQxjwqC8m9iOkRRD6Tc",
 "expires_in": 7200
}
```

## Step 3: Make the call

Now you got everything you need to access KubeSphere API server. Make the call using the access token acquired above as the following to get node list:

```bash
$ curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImFkbWluIiwidWlkIjoiYTlhNjJmOTEtYWQ2Yi00MjRlLWIxNWEtZTFkOTcyNmUzNDFhIiwidG9rZW5fdHlwZSI6ImFjY2Vzc190b2tlbiIsImV4cCI6MTYwMDg1MjM5OCwiaWF0IjoxNjAwODQ1MTk4LCJpc3MiOiJrdWJlc3BoZXJlIiwibmJmIjoxNjAwODQ1MTk4fQ.Hcyf-CPMeq8XyQQLz5PO-oE1Rp1QVkOeV_5J2oX1hvU" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  'http://[node ip]:31407/kapis/resources.kubesphere.io/v1alpha3/nodes'

{
 "items": [
  {
   "metadata": {
    "name": "node3",
    "selfLink": "/api/v1/nodes/node3",
    "uid": "dd8c01f3-76e8-4695-9e54-45be90d9ec53",
    "resourceVersion": "84170589",
    "creationTimestamp": "2020-06-18T07:36:41Z",
    "labels": {
     "a": "a",
     "beta.kubernetes.io/arch": "amd64",
     "beta.kubernetes.io/os": "linux",
     "gitpod.io/theia.v0.4.0": "available",
     "gitpod.io/ws-sync": "available",
     "kubernetes.io/arch": "amd64",
     "kubernetes.io/hostname": "node3",
     "kubernetes.io/os": "linux",
     "kubernetes.io/role": "new",
     "node-role.kubernetes.io/worker": "",
     "topology.disk.csi.qingcloud.com/instance-type": "Standard",
     "topology.disk.csi.qingcloud.com/zone": "ap2a"
    },
    "annotations": {
     "csi.volume.kubernetes.io/nodeid": "{\"disk.csi.qingcloud.com\":\"i-icjxhi1e\"}",
     "kubeadm.alpha.kubernetes.io/cri-socket": "/var/run/dockershim.sock",
     "node.alpha.kubernetes.io/ttl": "0",
     ....
```

{{< notice note >}}

Please substitue `[node ip]` with the real ip address.

{{</ notice >}}

## API Reference

KubeSpehre API swagger json can be found in repo https://github.com/kubesphere/kubesphere/tree/release-3.0/api

- KubeSphere specified API [swagger json](https://github.com/kubesphere/kubesphere/blob/release-3.0/api/ks-openapi-spec/swagger.json). It contains all the APIs that are only applied to KubeSphere.
- KubeSphere specified CRD [swagger json](https://github.com/kubesphere/kubesphere/blob/release-3.0/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json). It contains all the generated CRDs API documentation. It is same with Kubernetes api objects.