For over a year, we've had an API available based on XML::RPC.  It wasn't popular and it was difficult to support and keep up to date.  However, today I present to you a *PREVIEW* of our RESTful API.  Results are returned in JSON.  You can now authenticate and push requests to the cloud-shell interface via HTTP. 

The interface is in extreme-beta-state for the moment, as it only provides RAW access to  the STDOUT of the methods as run through the interactive cloud-shell.   The output must be cleaned up, the proper return-values and data-types must be returned.  Interpreting HTTP-POST data as script should also be implemented.  Once this is all complete, we'll mark it as stable.  I'm estimating a week.

Example:

 https://secure.grokthis.net/manage/vps/rest/status

Enter your username and password for the cloud-shell management interface (HTTP BASIC auth) and you should retrieve the status of your default instance.

Other commands of the cloud-shell will also work. Not yet supported via the REST interface are 'fetchuri', 'reimage', and 'console'.