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Facilities (deprecated)

In May of 2023 Equinix Metal™ is deprecating facility-specific API endpoints and support. All location-related concepts, including provisioning of devices and other infrastructure, is moving to the Metro level.

Starting on May 30th, 2023:

  • The API returns response headers containing deprecation and sunset messages to requests sent to facilities endpoints or requests using facilities in their parameters.
  • New Organizations (those created after May 30th) will not have access to facilities endpoints or be able to use facilities in their request parameters.

Use of the facilities-specific endpoints and request parameters will be permanently disabled for all users in late 2023.

Finding General Metro Information

With the deprecation of Facilities endpoints, responses to the following CLI and API requests will return response headers containing deprecation information. Please update any scripts or automation that uses these endpoints to query for Metros instead.

Use the following commands and endpoints for Metros instead.

Note - all Metros are visible to all Organizations and Projects.

Provisioning

With the deprecation of Facilities endpoints, responses to the following CLI and API requests will return response headers containing deprecation information. Please update any scripts or automation that uses these endpoints to provision using Metros instead.

When you use the metal device create command, use the --metro or -m parameter to specify the Metro instead of a facility.

metal device create -p $METAL_PROJECT_ID -P <plan> -m <metro> -H <hostname> -O <operating_system>

When you send the provisioning POST request projects/{id}/devices endpoint, use the "metro" field with the metro_code where you want the server to live instead of specifying a Facility.

curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Auth-Token: <API_TOKEN>" \
"https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/projects/{id}/devices" \
-d '{
    "metro": "<metro_code>",
    "plan": "<server_type>",
    "operating_system": "<os_code>"
}'

Using Metros in Place of Facilities

Similar to provisioning on-demand servers, other deployment options and platform features that previously supported provisioning in specific facilities will return response headers indicating their deprecation.

Please update your scripts or automation to use Metros in place of facilities in the CLI or API.

Be aware, the use of the "facilities" parameter is mutually exclusive to the "metros" parameter; it is not possible to use both.

Capacity Queries

With the deprecation of Facilities endpoints, responses to the following CLI and API requests will return response headers containing deprecation information. Please update any scripts or automation that uses these endpoints to query for Metro capacity instead.

Which Metro or Facility is my Server in?

Responses for servers and other infrastructure that contain a "facilities" object will continue to return it. For infrastructure that is provisioned on the Metro-level, the "facilities" object may be empty.

All responses contain a "metro" object, to identify which metro it is provisioned in.

You can still find out which Facility your server is in, however, you should know that facility-level diversity does not provide high-availability or redundancy guarantees. To set up and configure high-availability you should aim for a multi-metro architecture.

Use the metal device command, and specify that you want a JSON response using the output flag -o.

metal device get -i <device_id> -o json

Send a GET request to the devices/{id} endpoint. 

curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: <API_TOKEN>' https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/devices/{id}

Both the CLI and API returns a response that includes a "facility" object. Sample Response:

{
"id": "0dd71771-143e-4964-87d2-7e6f0348253a",
...
 "facility": {
    "id": "917e9941-8323-487f-8688-2b0b11baacd4",
    "name": "Silicon Valley",
    "code": "sv15",
    "features": [
      "baremetal",
      "backend_transfer",
      "layer_2",
      "global_ipv4",
      "ibx"
    ],
    "address": {
      ...
      }
    },
    "metro": {
      "id": "2991b022-b8c4-497e-8db7-5a407c3a209b",
      "name": "Silicon Valley",
      "code": "sv",
      "country": "US"
    }
  },
...
}

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