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  • List Admins
  • Invite an Admin
  • Register an Admin’s Credentials
  • Send a Password-Reset Email to an Admin
  • Reset an Admin’s Password
  • Retrieve an Admin
  • Update an Admin
  • Delete an Admin
  • List an Admin’s Roles
  • Create or Update an Admin’s Roles
  • Delete an Admin’s Role
  • List an Admin’s Workspaces
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Admins Reference

List Admins

Endpoint

/admins

Response

HTTP 200 OK
{
  "data": [{
    "created_at": 1556638385,
    "id": "665b4070-541f-48bf-82c1-53030babaa81",
    "updated_at": 1556638385,
    "status": 4,
    "username": "test-admin",
    "email": "test@test.com",
    "rbac_token_enabled": true
  }, {
    "created_at": 1556563122,
    "id": "a93ff120-9e6c-4198-b47e-f779104c7eac",
    "updated_at": 1556563122,
    "status": 0,
    "username": "kong_admin",
    "rbac_token_enabled": false
  }],
  "next": null
}

The status field in the response indicates if the admin has accepted their invitation:

Code Status
0 Approved
1 Pending
2 Rejected
3 Revoked
4 Invited
5 Unverified

Invite an Admin

Endpoint

/admins
Attribute Description
email The Admin’s email address
username The Admin’s username
custom_id
optional
The Admin’s custom ID
rbac_token_enabled Allows the Admin to use and reset their RBAC token; true by default

Response

HTTP 200 OK
{
  "admin": {
    "created_at": 1556638641,
    "id": "8f0a742f-07f3-49e0-90d7-4fc7eea7e6a4",
    "updated_at": 1556638641,
    "status": 4,
    "username": "test-case-3",
    "email": "test3@test.com",
    "rbac_token_enabled": true
  }
}

Register an Admin’s Credentials

Endpoint

/admins/register
Attribute Description
token The authentication token
username The Admin’s username
email The Admin’s email address
password The Admin’s new password

Response

HTTP 201 Created

Send a Password-Reset Email to an Admin

Endpoint

/admins/password_resets
Attribute Description
email The Admin’s email address

Response

HTTP 201 Created

Reset an Admin’s Password

Endpoint

/admins/password_resets
Attribute Description
email The Admin’s email address
password The Admin’s new password
token The authentication token

Response

HTTP 200 OK

Retrieve an Admin

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s username or ID
generate_register_url
optional
true returns a unique registration URL for the Admin

Notes:

  • generate_register_url will only generate a URL if the Admin’s invitation status is 4 (“invited”).
  • generate_register_url will override the preåvious registration URL for the particular Admin each time it is requested.

Response

HTTP 200 OK
{
  "created_at": 1556638385,
  "id": "665b4070-541f-48bf-82c1-53030babaa81",
  "updated_at": 1556638385,
  "status": 4,
  "username": "test-admin",
  "email": "test@test.com",
  "rbac_token_enabled": true
}

Update an Admin

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s current username or custom ID
email
optional
The Admin’s new email address
username
optional
The Admin’s new username
custom_id
optional
The Admin’s new custom ID
rbac_token_enabled Allows the Admin to use and reset their RBAC token; true by default

Response

HTTP 200 OK
{
  "created_at": 1556638385,
  "id": "665b4070-541f-48bf-82c1-53030babaa81",
  "updated_at": 1556639017,
  "status": 4,
  "username": "test-renamed",
  "email": "test@test.com"
  "rbac_token_enabled": true
}

Delete an Admin

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s username or ID

Response

HTTP 204 No Content

List an Admin’s Roles

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}/roles
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s username or ID

Response

HTTP 200 OK
{
  "roles": [{
    "comment": "Read access to all endpoints, across all workspaces",
    "created_at": 1556563122,
    "id": "7574eb1d-c9fa-46a9-bd3a-3f1b4b196287",
    "name": "read-only",
    "is_default": false
  }, {
    "comment": "Full access to all endpoints, across all workspaces—except RBAC Admin API",
    "created_at": 1556563122,
    "id": "7fdea5c8-2bfa-4aa9-9c21-7bb9e607186d",
    "name": "admin",
    "is_default": false
  }]
}

Create or Update an Admin’s Roles

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}/roles
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s current username or ID
roles (comma separated) string of names of Roles to create or update for an Admin

Response

HTTP 201 OK
{
  "roles": [{
    "comment": "Read access to all endpoints, across all workspaces",
    "created_at": 1556563122,
    "id": "7574eb1d-c9fa-46a9-bd3a-3f1b4b196287",
    "name": "read-only",
    "is_default": false
  }, {
    "comment": "Full access to all endpoints, across all workspaces—except RBAC Admin API",
    "created_at": 1556563122,
    "id": "7fdea5c8-2bfa-4aa9-9c21-7bb9e607186d",
    "name": "admin",
    "is_default": false
  }, {
    "comment": "Full access to all endpoints, across all workspaces",
    "created_at": 1556563122,
    "id": "99bd8d18-f5b6-410e-aefe-d75f4252f13c",
    "name": "super-admin",
    "is_default": false
  }]
}

Delete an Admin’s Role

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}/roles
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s current username or custom ID
roles (comma separated) string of names of Roles to remove from an Admin

Response

HTTP 204 No Content

List an Admin’s Workspaces

Endpoint

/admins/{name_or_id}/workspaces
Attribute Description
name_or_id The Admin’s username or ID

Response

HTTP 200 OK
[{
  "created_at": 1556563122,
  "config": {
    "portal": true,
    "portal_auto_approve": true
  },
  "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "name": "default",
  "meta": {}
}, {
  "created_at": 1556570807,
  "config": {
    "portal": true
  },
  "id": "57b3ce24-6d29-427f-af13-15bd60430e56",
  "name": "sdfgsdfg",
  "meta": {
    "color": "#3894f0"
  }
}]
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