portainer-docs/api/docs.md

API documentation

Portainer exposes an HTTP API that you can use to automate everything you do via the Portainer UI. You can also use Portainer as a gateway (HTTP queries against the Portainer API) to the underlying Docker/Kubernetes API.

Find our API documentation at SwaggerHub, and take a look at our examples of how you can use the API:

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