Discovery

Discovery provides tools for creating, listing, retrieving, updating, and deleting resources in F5 Distributed Cloud.

Tools

Tool	Description
f5xc-api-api-discovery-create	Create Discovery.
f5xc-api-api-discovery-get	Get Discovery.
f5xc-api-api-discovery-list	List Discovery.
f5xc-api-api-discovery-update	Update Discovery.
f5xc-api-api-discovery-delete	Delete Discovery.

Parameters

Path Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
namespace	Namespace This defines the workspace within which each the configuration object is to be created.	system
name	Name The name of the configuration object to be fetched.	example-resource

Query Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
response_format	The format in which the configuration object is to be fetched. This could be for example - in GetSpec form for the contents of object…	GET_RSP_FORMAT_DEFAULT
label_filter	A LabelSelectorType expression that every item in list response will satisfy.	-
report_fields	The report_fields parameter…	-
report_status_fields	The report_status_fields parameter…	-

Configuration Choices

This resource includes mutually exclusive configuration options:

cluster_identifier_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
spec.cluster_id	Cluster id
spec.no_cluster_id	No cluster id

discovery_choice

Option	Description	Recommended
spec.discovery_consul	Discovery consul
spec.discovery_k8s	Discovery k8s

Example Usage

Ask Claude to help you work with Discovery resources:

Create Discovery

“Create a discovery named ‘example’ in the ‘production’ namespace”

List Discoverys

“List all discoverys in the ‘production’ namespace”

Get Discovery Details

“Get details of the discovery named ‘example’ in namespace ‘production‘“

CURL Examples

# List resources
curl -X GET "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/discoverys" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}"

# Get specific resource
curl -X GET "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/discoverys/$${PARAM}" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}"

# Create resource
curl -X POST "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/discoverys" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @discovery.json

# Delete resource
curl -X DELETE "https://${TENANT}.console.ves.volterra.io/api/config/namespaces/$${PARAM}/discoverys/$${PARAM}" \
  -H "Authorization: APIToken ${F5XC_API_TOKEN}"