Terrain¶
Terrain provides the primary point of communication between the Discovery Environment (DE) UI and backend services.
It's charged with two primary tasks:
(1) to handle authentication and authorization for endpoints that require it,
(2) to orchestrate calls to other lower-level services.
The primary and most current source for Terrain API endpoint documentation are the Swagger docs hosted by the service itself: https://de.cyverse.org/terrain/docs
Not all endpoints have been documented in those Swagger docs yet, and those endpoints will be listed under the default Swagger category. The documentation for those endpoints may still be found below.
Authentication¶
Authentication to the DE services is currently handled by Keycloak, allowing clients to obtain OAuth or OIDC tokens for accessing secured API endpoints.
See the /terrain/token/keycloak endpoint docs for details on obtaining tokens.