On 05/27/2014 12:52 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Does SL (i.e., TUV EL) have a standard enterprise-quality production 
> REST API that will interoperate with non-EL "clouds"?
>
>

In a later message in the thread, you mention VMware specifically.

The VMware CLI is available for EL, and there are a number of Open 
Source components.  You'll need to dig, and the particular terminology 
used by VMware has its own learning curve (just like the learning curve 
for everybody else who seems to want to differentiate their product by 
using contrived (and trademarkable) names). (Here's a link to some of 
the OpenSource components of VMware's current vCloud setup: 
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vcloud_suite/5_5#open_source 
)  If that link doesn't work for you it may be because I am registered 
with vmware.com and have a login to same....

Do note that 'REST' or 'RESTful' is describing an architectural style 
and not a strict API per-se.  That is, plan old HTTP 1.1 is a ReST API 
(ReST := Representational State Transfer; see the wikipedia article on 
same).  So two totally incompatible API's can both be 'REST' APIs but 
not interoperate.

It also depends upon what you mean by 'interoperate.'

There are good reasons to use VMware, especially if you already have the 
in-house knowledge base.

'Cloud' is such a nebulous term.....