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=== Description (from pull-request) ===
Signed-off-by: Daniel Middleton <d...@monokal.io>
From 27b84d63adb961d9988fd2494a0bd38433621242 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Middleton <mono...@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:01:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add basic REST API usage example to README.md
---
README.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e9c8983..5a77a74 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,39 @@ shell you're going to interact with lxd from.
After you've got LXD installed and a session with the right permissions, you
can take your [first steps](#first-steps).
+## Using the REST API directly
+Here's a simple example of REST API usage via cURL:
+```bash
+curl -k -L -I \
+ --cert ${LXD_API_CRT} \
+ --key ${LXD_API_KEY} \
+ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+ -X POST \
+ -d @hello-ubuntu.json \
+ "${LXD_API_URL}/containers"
+```
+where `hello-ubuntu.json` could contain:
+```json
+{
+ "name":"some-ubuntu",
+ "architecture":"x86_64",
+ "profiles":[
+ "default"
+ ],
+ "ephemeral":true,
+ "config":{
+ "limits.cpu":"2"
+ },
+ "source": {
+ "type":"image",
+ "mode":"pull",
+ "protocol":"simplestreams",
+ "server":"https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases";,
+ "alias":"14.04"
+ }
+}
+```
+
## Building from source
We recommend having the latest versions of liblxc (>= 1.1 required) and CRIU
From da786080b359dc9743ea9808f8c76725952ff971 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Middleton <mono...@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:44:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Signed-off-by: Daniel Middleton <d...@monokal.io>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Middleton <d...@monokal.io>
---
README.md | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5a77a74..6e4bfda 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ shell you're going to interact with lxd from.
After you've got LXD installed and a session with the right permissions, you
can take your [first steps](#first-steps).
-## Using the REST API directly
+## Using the REST API
Here's a simple example of REST API usage via cURL:
```bash
curl -k -L -I \
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