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Phase 5 · Scripting & Programming for DevOps

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Working With APIs & JSON

Part of the DevOps Roadmap.

Summary

Most modern infrastructure and cloud tools are controlled via REST APIs returning JSON — comfort parsing JSON and making authenticated API calls from a script is a core automation skill.

How to Learn This

  • 1Use curl or a script to call a free public API and parse the JSON response.
  • 2Learn to use a tool like jq to extract specific fields from JSON on the command line.
  • 3Practice handling API authentication (API keys, tokens) securely, not hardcoded in scripts.

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