NetApp® ONTAP® 9.6 and later versions include support for an expansive RESTful web services API. In comparison to an ONTAPI® application, the REST API offers a vastly simplified and workflow-driven user experience, allowing you to perform multiple operations on the storage objects with a single API. REST is the industry standard for API development and the ONTAP REST API provides a great opportunity to automate your storage deployments.

This repository contains sample scripts illustrating how to use the ONTAP REST API. You can access the API through the Python client library, which is preferable in most situations. If needed, you can also connect directly to the API using the native capabilities provided with Python. See the repository folder examples with two subfolders containing sample code by usage type. Also see the folder lod for instructions on using the NetApp Lab on Demand (LOD) to run the sample scripts.