The Cloud Foundry API is a RESTful interface exposed by the Cloud Controller. You may hear this API referred to as CAPI
, an abbreviation for the Cloud Controller API
. The Cloud Controller API is also part of the common core, meaning it is standard across the different vendor distributions.
When you set an API endpoint, you are selecting a deployment of Cloud Foundry to use. You may hear some vendors refer to deployments as “foundations” or “instances”, but they are essentially one and the same. They are a running Cloud Foundry deployment.