Playground Environment
The Playground allows developers to check out our APIs so they may determine what APIs work for them. Developers can easily get started with our playground APIs to get a response.
What is a Playground?
The Playground is a developer environment where you can instantly begin to test and find out how our APIs behave in a separate environment that will not affect production data. Create a proof of concept or demo for your application. The responses are simulated and return mock data reproducing an API production experience.
Quickly setup, integrate and test your applications with our playground to ensure a compatible and effortless integration with your network. Through our automated sign-up process, developers receive instant access to the playground and get setup so that they immediately kickoff testing their application.
Once established, our API technology will certainly engage you to innovate application solutions that will broaden your value to customers.
Benefits of our Playground
In addition to proof of concept and demoing APIs, there are other benefits that you can find in the playground environment.
- Full access to the playground without being a customer of DLR or Interxion.
- Accessible with just a subscription to the developer portal.
- Produce Mock responses that replicate data from real API's.
- Allows for both System Integration Testing (SIT) and Unit Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Sandbox Environment
Accelerate development and test your application in real-life conditions using our sandbox APIs. We provide a wide range of fully compliant APIs, along with dynamic test data to help you build powerful and innovative applications faster.
What is an API Sandbox?
Our Sandbox is a feature that allows developers to imitate the characteristics of a production environment in a dedicated testing environment. Within the sandbox, developers have an environment that mirrors production without production data. They can call our sandbox API’s and use the responses to create your application. Developers can test all scenario’s before integrating their product within the real system.
You can modify and add other products as needed there. Every time you create a new portal application, you will get consumer key and consumer secret as credentials to access the DLR Sandbox Environment.
Benefits of our Sandbox
In addition to testing and simulating APIs, there are other benefits that you can find in the sandbox environment.
- Provides basic components you need for performing common tasks to focus on the unique components of your application.
- Perform continuous simulation to customers from Digital Realty or Interxion.
- Also allows developers to perform System Integration Testing (SIT) and Unit Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Simulation is crucial to find API incompatibility with the product development process.
- An API sandbox allows developers to perform various tests with any API from DLR.
If you want to experience all of the DLR sandbox benefits above, start by registering yourself here. Follow the registration flow and take note of each point before you use the API sandbox.
Production Environment
Production is our secure permanent environment accessible to customers running our APIs and your live data. Our Production environment allows you to order DLR services and monitor your remote physical data center environments logged in real-time and much, much more.
When you are ready to move your applications into operation hosted in our production environment, please contact the DLR API team through the Developer Portal for further assistance.
