Identify VM Tasks through the API

Effective on November 29, 2023·

For years, you can deploy applications on Clever Cloud as a Task with the API or more recently the CC_TASK=true environment variable. As this feature will be widely available and used, the API has been updated to return such a state in the instance.lifetime object:

GET https://api.clever-cloud.com/v2/self/applications/<appId>
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{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "zone": "string",
  "zoneId": "string",
  "instance": {
    "type": "string",
    "version": "string",
    "variant": {},
    "minInstances": int,
    "maxInstances": int,
    "maxAllowedInstances": int,
    "minFlavor": {},
    "maxFlavor": {},
    "flavors": [],
    "lifetime": "string",  //Allowed: REGULAR ┃ MIGRATION ┃ TASK
    "instanceAndVersion": "string"
  },
  ...
}

You can read the full APIv2 documentation here.

Last updated on February 18, 2024

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